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Anyone here suffer from autoimmune disease?
For those that don't know autoimmune diseases include, Lupus, Ulcerative Colitis, Celiacs Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjrogen's syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, etc etc etc.
Recently diagnosed with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. My father had ulcerative colitis. So I likely inherited the predisposition. Didn't know a lot about RA or autoimmune diseases in general until my own diagnosis. Had no idea RA was treated with lifelong chemotherapy (MTX as well as other DMARDs) and/or biologics (think of those humira commercials).
I just wanted to see if any other NTers are facing the same or similar battles. Seems like once you're immunocompromised it's like opening pandora's box. Often when a person has one form of autoimmune disease, they're susceptible to others as well as co-morbidities such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer, etc. So I'm just trying to gain some insight beyond dealing with my various physicians.
For those that don't know autoimmune diseases include, Lupus, Ulcerative Colitis, Celiacs Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjrogen's syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, etc etc etc.
Recently diagnosed with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. My father had ulcerative colitis. So I likely inherited the predisposition. Didn't know a lot about RA or autoimmune diseases in general until my own diagnosis. Had no idea RA was treated with lifelong chemotherapy (MTX as well as other DMARDs) and/or biologics (think of those humira commercials).
I just wanted to see if any other NTers are facing the same or similar battles. Seems like once you're immunocompromised it's like opening pandora's box. Often when a person has one form of autoimmune disease, they're susceptible to others as well as co-morbidities such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer, etc. So I'm just trying to gain some insight beyond dealing with my various physicians.