chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
 

My mother just passed away from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy at the age of 91. In September 2006, at age 87, she awoke in the middle of the night with extreme dizziness. She was taken to the hospital and eventually diagnosed. Several months later, due to a shuffling gait from the disease, she fell and broke her hip and ended up wheelchair bound. Her progression was downhill over the next four years, and she finally became totally immobile, not even being able to feed herself or turn over in bed. She became almost totally demented. She died of respiratory distress. Another example of the many horribly debilitating, finally fatal neurological diseases out there. I believe she might have been genetically predisposed, as there are other neurological problems in the family - multiple sclerosis in two members, and I have chronic fatigue syndrome. I wonder if I could have inherited a genetic predisposition for my condition from my mom, as she used to complain of aching and burning muscles with very little exertion, slept very lightly all her life, had irritable bowel syndrome (as I do - a symptom of CFS), and other, lighter symptoms of the disease.