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Hi Alka

As far as I can see from a PubMed search ("Hashimoto" AND "food allergy") there is nothing to suggest that people with Hashimoto disease are at greater risk of food allergies than people who do not have that disease.

It might help if you consulted a specialist clinical immunologist who has experience of working with clients with food allergies - s/he might be of assistance.

All the best.

This is a very interesting topic OP. Since acquiring my condition 8 years ago (which is suspect is immune related) I have not been sick. Previous to that I would get sick what I would consider a normal amount. I've been recently wondering if it has to do with being mostly housebound and getting plenty of rest or if it has to do with an overactive immune system. Still, 8 years is a freaking long time to go without getting a cold imo.

I'm never sick, but when I did catch a virus last October my immune system made sure it was destroying everything, included my both hands. :( I deteriorated a lot because of that. So the next time I get sick I will maybe need walking aids if my legs are attacked.

Hi - I have a diagnosis of RA but I think it's in remission. I have an immune mediated small fiber neuropathy - still awaiting test results to see if they can pin it down more but it's right up both legs and arms now. So the fact that I haven't had a cold or flu or sick bug for a couple of years now interests me a lot too. The last time I got ill was when I was on a my highest dose of Methotrexate and suddenly had an awful cold, a sick bug and an ear infection in rapid succession. But since I've been off DMARDs again for 8 months (couldn't tolerate the 3 I tried) I never get sick - apart from with sleep deprivation and inflammatory nerve pain.

Lucky or unlucky? I guess every cloud has a silver lining but my cloud is more distressing and permanent than a cold!

I have RA and Hashimoto's with additional autoimmunity including SFN. I don't get viruses ever these days but when I was on the higher dose of Methotrexate I found that I did get a succession of bugs - however my joints and nerve pain were much improved so it was a mixed bag. I think my immune system is very overactive now because I have been exposed to all the winter viruses including sick bugs and heavy colds and none has affected me yet. There are some benefits to autoimmunity for some of us it seems but I'd swap the pain and fatigue for the odd bug any day!

Myasthenia gravis and allergies

Hi All,

good evening.

i am Myasthenia gravis patient also i am long time suffering allergies,,,

if any body is suffering as same me even i want talk myasthenia gravis patients.

my skype : asim.bd1

Thanks all

Sheikh

Welcome Sheikh. :Tip-Hat:

Have all symptoms for ms panel came back neg?

So far I have underwent lumbar puncture , as well as mri with contrast and without. Have double vision, numbness up the right side of my body. Underwent 4 days of 1000 mil of steroids through Iv Infusion.

After being released from the hospital ms panel the one test that takes a few days came back neg? Drs still think I have a form of Ms? Are there other tests that people underwent outside of these tests? I am new to ms and do not know what tests I will be going through. Are there several auto immune illnesses that i will have to be ruled out the mimic ms?

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Originally Posted by Vowel Lady (Post 1115935)

When I had lupus alone, I felt that I seem to not get colds as easily as others.

Many years later, I was dx'd with Sj. Syndrome, although I had some slight symptoms of it much earlier.

With the Sj. Syndrome and the weird nasal dryness associated with it, I seem to be more prone to sinus infections. I think, although not positive, excessive nasal dryness, makes one more prone to irritation and therefore perhaps more vulnerable.

Washing my hands A LOT and eating correctly has been helpful for me.

I have had Hashimoto's for about 14 years now and then came RA and some others including small fiber neuropathy. Until a month ago when I came down with flu - which turned into pneumonia - bugs have flown straight past me. I did have one brief exception when got up to 20mg of injectable methotrexate with Plaquenil - then I got sick bug followed by heavy summer cold but finally had to come back off MTX and Plaquenil because of GI problems and angioderma/ hives.

I've had allergies all my life - usually idiopathic. Eczema, Alopecia, rhinitis, angioderma have dominated much of my younger life. Then the eczema and alopecia went completely overnight - no change in diet or lifestyle apart from the cat dying and stopping using oil paint. I asked a professor of connective tissue diseases if he thought my history of allergies related to my autoimmune story and he said many of his patients had similar histories to mine and he thought these were connnected - fight of flight etc.

I was just coming here to ask whether anyone knows why I might have been so ill lately despite being 9 months off immune suppressant meds. My RA symptoms have never returned in over a year and the nerve pain is now just localised aches and the odd shooting pain and lots of icy extremities - not quite full blown Raynanuds but the burning feet and hands have gone. So weird - it's as if my body is too busy focussing on coughing to have the energy for anything else?