> Barbara,
>
> I was about to pose a slightly different question about the immune
> system myself. As far as I understand, TM is related to the opposite of a
> suppressed immune system - it is a hyper immune system. You catch an
> ordinary cold virus and your system goes nuts and attacks your myelin.
>
> Anyway, the steroids they give you suppress the immune system. Are you
> taking steroids? That could explain it. Or just plain being tired and run
> down from tired muscles from the TM could make you more vulnerable. One
> summer and fall I had chronic strep throat (I didn't have TM, my son had
it)
> and some Vitamin C tablets seemed to do the trick - break the cycle of them
> or something.
>
> Lastly, my question - if TM is a hyper immune system, aren't allergies
> that as well? I wanted a quick survey - what food and drug allergies do
you
> all have? My TM son was allergic to eggs, milk and peanuts and sulfa drugs
> but seems to have outgrown all those - except we haven't been brave enough
> to give him more sulfa drugs.
>
> Sincerely,
> Joyce
>
Joyce,
I haven't had any trouble with allergies before this except seasonal hay
fever.
I was on steroids for three days after the onset of TM (over two years ago).
Other than that I've only been on them since Monday due to hives and swelling.
I've developed weakness and pain in my shoulders and wrists and hands over the
last day or two, and called in about that this morning...they don't know if
that's from the steroids or part if the original allegic reaction or what.
I've just been doing a little research on the computer -- could be either. I
was told to go off the steroids and see what happened and call if anything got
worse.
Barbara