Guest guest Posted May 14, 2006 Report Posted May 14, 2006 Ann, Welcome to the group, we will be here no matter which illness is bringing you down the most. Take care and I wish you as many answers as can be given to you. Can I ask about your MS. We are currently concerned I might me adding it to the mix? In His Strength, Faith Fights 1 4:1-2 > >Reply-To: Stillsdisease >To: Stillsdisease >Subject: Intoducing myself >Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 21:43:57 -0700 (PDT) > >Hi group, > >I aplogize for the below post. Not a good way to join a group :-( Was an >accident. > >My name is Ann and live in Missouri. Was DX with MS in 84, then Stills >back >in 84-85. Can't remember now. Then MVP, then Fibro, Lupus, Reynauds.. >Since >the net began, have been on several forums. Searching for answers. Had >forgotten all about the DX of Stills. Drs here, don't have a clue to what >it >is. Blame the arthritic pain to the Fibro or MS. Always have had a high sed >rate-since was a lab tech since age 15. Recently had a CBC done and HGB was >16.0. Rather high. Was either an error in the lab, or I have a high Hgb. >If >so, has anyone else had this? Also eyesight has gotten bad. Can Stills >cause >this. Or is it some optic neurological inflammation? Am about deaf anyway. >Am >glad I decided to try and find old medical records. Just wish I had >remembered/looked for medical records and came here to begin with. >Happy Mothers Day! > >To more painfree, and less bad days! > >Regards, >Ann > >--- " a.g.-ann " wrote: > > > Randi, > > Just to clarify, I seldom ran high fevers. In DX of Stills it says the >high > > fevers don't always exist. It is common for people who have an >inflammatory > > or autoimmune disease to develop another autoimmune disease. > > Drs sometime refer to this as overlapping with another autoimmune >disease. > > This means that they have symptoms of other diseases that do not fit > > directly > > within their main diagnosis. Sometimes they will develop a second >disease, > > such as fibromyalgia. When this happens, most doctors refer the > > fibromyalgia > > symptoms as being " secondary " to their main disease (Still's.. RA, >Lupus, > > APLS). > > > > One can't rule out one malady when others coexist. Forgot now where I >read > > about a person being ill for over ten years and Lyme always negative. >Then > > suddenly is positive. Did they have something else? Then exposed to >lyme? > > Then after all those years also a positive ANA. WHY? Oh well, like Drs >have > > always done me, blame it on MS, or fibro. I know all of us who are ill >have > > something! If not one main malady, perhaps a combination. Tis is why I > > always > > have said MS=multiple symtoms, and I have a combo platter. > > Thought the information of Stills would be helpful. BTW: I was DX with > > Stills > > after MS. So in my case MS was the last resort. > > > > Best Regards, > > Ann > > > > --- randi schulman wrote: > > > I think you have to test positive for some of the autoimmune tests, > > > like ANA that you dont test positive for with stills. For instance I > > > dont have high spiking fevers or anything like that, but i dont have > > > the confirmative ANA, so its stills. stills is always the diagnosis of > > > last resort. > > >__________________________________________________ > Quote
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