I have been recently diagnosed with Myasthenia gravis. I developed RSD 25 years ago after foot surgery. It took 10 years to get it under control. In the last 15 years I have had several incidences with a mild re-occurence of RSD that was relieved with ice, elevation and rest.

I was reading that now they think RSD is an auto-immune disease too. Do your doctors consider it an auto-immune disease and treat it with steroids too? Does anyone here have RSD and another neuromuscular autoimmune disease like Myasthenia gravis or MS?

The reason I am asking Is my MG has been getting worse and today, I had the return of the RSD like symptoms in my left foot. I find it hard to believe that it is a coincidence. What is the likelihood of 1 person have RSD and MG? I was wondering If my increase immune response related to MG reactivated my RSD since it may be autoimmune too.

Thanks,
kathie

Hi Kathie!

I'm not too sure as I don't know much about RSD. However, many people have more than one autoimmune disease. There are people on here that have MS along with diabetes, MG, Lupus, arthritis, thyroid disease, etc. So, based on this, I would think that if RSD is autoimmune related you can have both RSD and MG. Have you asked others on the MG forum if they have anyother autoimmune diseases, specifically neuromuscular autoimmune diseases? It would be interesting to see what they say.

Thanks, I posted on the MG, MS and RSD forum to see if anyone had RSD and another autoimmune disease or if they are treating RSD as auto-immune now. It seems that considering RSD as auto-immune is relatively new and controversial. I just hope that the MG treatment either steroids or thymectomy makes the RSD go away too.


thanks
kathie

I was diagnosed with RSD in 1977 and it was treated with prednisone. Lucky for me that was the last I dealt with that. I also have MS and thyroid problems. It doesn't seem fair, but I think anyone can have a multitude of autoimmune related illness. Personally, I think if you have one, you are more prone to another one. (Just my own theory.)

I hope you get both/all conditions under control quickly.

It is not uncommon to have a 2nd and even a third overlapping auto-immune disease.

Here's one source: https://www.aarda.org/infocus_article.php?ID=19

Bless anyone who does!
ANN