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To everyone out there :

Recently I sent a long post, and there maybe people who think is getting in practice to write a book. Well probililty I'll slack off a bit and try not be carried away about this personal stuff that has happen in my life. For all the new people ( which I'am relatively new myself ) responding on this support group, I live in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. I'am a U.S. Air Force vetrean getting my medical care through the Vetrean's Administration. I was diagnois of Sarcoidosis in Jan. 2002 and assorted other symptoms such as neurosarcoidosis is circumstancial but not proven one way or another.

To those that sent e-mails to me and post messages, if I now I appeared to misled anyone about the sucidal thoughts I did have, I'am sorry (no need to be sorry ... many of us have had these "occasional" thoughts" -- but I'm glad they are gone). These thoughts I did have back earlier this summer, but they were just thoughts. Anyway all this has basically disapated away now. It's not because I seen a counslor, praying or anything else except what happen to Terria Hardy made me think in a related way to neice about the same age. I heard of stories like what happed to Terria before in previous years, but ever has affected me because what happen to her to my own personal life.

One child that was or ever will be that is molested and killed since the beginning of time is one child too many!!! Likewise one woman that was or ever will be raped, left to die, or die out right since the beginning of time is one woman too many!!! What happen to Terria is just another bad mark upon men in society since the beginning of time. I've become so "transform" about this that has put my outlook about life in a better perspective. It would be "TOO GOOD OF A THING" that whomever does these things to children and women to have these things done to him or her the REST OF ETERNITY!!!!!!!!

Questions:

(1) Late in 1993 I had a Lympocrite Testing and at that time my lympocrites were at 21%. Between then up to March 2000 I had none of this type of blood test of my white blood cells as far as I know. Then in March 2000 I had this done and it was to level of 8.6%. About this later period of time I was upset because I thought I would be going a divorce and I understand this in itself can suppressed the white blood count. Anyway I think it would be below normal regardless. Ever since that testing in March 2000 to the present time I had 5 more of these testings and all have been below normal. I know that the minimum percentage amount is 20% of total white blood cells a person should have.

The highest amount was up to 13. something % amount. This maybe all said and done one of major reasons I got Sarcoidosis as well as everyone who gets this.

(A) Will my lympocrites level more than likely be below normal for the rest of my life? (mine eventually leveled out, so there is hope)

( Is this type of testing accurate with Sarcoid Auto-antibodies in myself? (as far as I am aware and from my own experience, my lymphocytes are tested periodically, among other things)

© Would boosting the immune system of Immogulmin Serum ( I think it is called that)

be any benificial to me as long as I not taking Corticosteriods such as prednisone? (I hope I'm right in this since an overactive immune system produces a weakened immune system, but we need immune system "suppressants" ... our immune systems are already boosted)

(D) If I had the testing to determine if I have an Immogulmin Defiency of my lympo-

crites: 1. How does this effect Sarcoidosis?

2. How does Sarcoidosis effect a Immogulmin Defiency for the reverse way

of the previous question?

(2) In middle of March of 2002 I had tingling down my arms to my fingertips, and down my legs to my toes. The doctor at the time I was seeing thought this was about my discs in my lower spine that was causing this nerve damage. I had told him I had prob-

lems in my lower back to previous years working at the retail store because of inproper lifting of heavy items. MRI on my lower spine area said mild disc bulge and some minor things but the Doc said surgery wasn't needed at that time. This tingling lasted to end of July or up to August 2002. It then suddenly stop then as it started in the first place. As the way things happen I don't know what cause this and the sequencial "stocking (sock) effect of perherial neuropathy that started the following year (2003). (We are on the same time frame, !...same thing here) Personally I have a "gut" feeling this had nothing to do with my spine. (Me, too, but I mistakenly put my trust in the doc's and had 6 steroid epidurals which were supposed to reduce the inflammation of the disk -- however, after last MRI, neuro said disk was never inflamed -- it was the nerves all along.) There's no way to know for sure now anyway. Spring 2003: burning with sometimes skin feels cold, stabbing or prickling going on my feet, and vibration feeling under the skin started. (me, too, but spring of this year) I had an EMG done June 2002 on right leg only because that's where the pain started and the worst of limbs. (I had 2 EMG's -- one in July 2002, and one this last July -- radiculopathy was evident on 1st EMG; now diagnosed as "chronic radiculopathy" with added "axonal type peripheral neuropathy most likely cased by sarcoidosis")

CLINICAL INTERPRETATION:"Evidence for an early axonal polyneuropathy, which has caused mild drop in sensory nerve amplitudes distally and with the beginnings of fibrillation potentials distally, but was not seen proximally that is diffuse and symmetric".

(1) Why would this stopped in summer of 2002? (for myself, I call it "neurontin, time, and remission)

Joan