Anybody seen this?
 

This just showed up on my Google Alert. I wondered if anybody has seen any published evidence like this before..........viruses, possibly Polio (did I read correctly?), implicated as the cause of MG??

http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content...act/74/14/1118

Thanks for this info., Jana...I've always wondered about Polio...Polio affects the same parts of the body that MG affects...I wonder if MG is some sort of preemptive strike against polio before paralysis from the infection can take place...Maybe the thymus is kinda like an infection strainer, the way the spleen sorta is, and that's why traces of the infection are in there...

Thanks again...I like reading anything new they come up with when it comes to this wretched disease...

Something else i wanted to add...Isn't it weird that ALS has the same sorta presentation as MG, except taht MG is fatiguable? I've read that thymuses of ALS patients had some abnormalities similar to those of MG patients...I wonder if polio is related to ALS as well, in some roundabout way...

Nicky

You can listen to the author of this paper.
 

Hay Guys this is the link to the pod cast

http://www.aan.com/rss/index.cfm/getfile/AAN_2050.mp3

Look for other MG pod-casts on this site. Interesting stuff.

Have a good weekend,
Christy

Thanks, Jana. I hadn't read that yet.

And then there's the even worse thought that those polio vaccines we had as children may have contributed to our MG.

I always wondered what an antiviral might do to MG. Anyone ever take one, like for H1N1, and feel better?

Annie

I took an antiviral BEFORE MG and didn't sleep for THREE straight days!! I think it was Flumadine. Never, never, NEVER again. It was WORSE, IMHO, than the flu.