I was just reminded of an article I read where the researcher said if someone with an AI (autoimmune) disease lives long enough, they will "collect them all" since we are prone to get other AI diseases.
I'm just interested in how many AI diagnoses people have. Would you mind posting....
My first diagnosis was 7 years ago and I have 2 of them: fibro and RA.
* Edited to say that rather than first diagnosis, the # of years since the major onset of symptoms makes more sense, since sometimes it can take years to get a diagnosis.
I thought a list might help! http://thyroid.about.com/library/autoquiz/blautoimmunelist.h tm
My first diagnosis was Endometriosis about 15 years ago. My most recent is RA - diagnosed in August 2004.
Endometriosis
Hashimoto's
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Would probably be good if I posted the reference...
"Immune system disorders often cluster in families and within an individual, says Virginia Ladd, president of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. "Once you have one, you have others. Some patients say if you live long enough, you can collect them."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-09-03-autoimmune-ad vances_N.htm
Fibro Dx July 2005
Sero-Negative RA Dx Sept 2005
mmm... RA 1995, age 43...Cardiomyopathy, 2002, age 49.. Sjorgrens, 2005,
I am wondering though because when I was in my early 20s I had a weird condition on my hands hard, painful, itching blisters that broke into weeping sores... I remember how bad they hurt..also some kind of severe IBS.. in high school. sudden attacks of the runs..
RA~1992
Raynaud's~1992
Sjogren's~can't remember...around 2004 I think
Endometriosis had a full hysterctomy by age of 40, Hypothyroidism since the age of 38, ra and oa at the age of 44, Pa was probably at the age of 35 but wasn't diagnosed properly till the age of 46, Psoriasis since childhood and Raynaud Syndrome too. meme
*Endometrosis 1972: TAH/BSO 1983
*Sero-negative Rheumatoid arthritis 1984
*Dermatomyositis/Sjögren's Syndrome 1989
*Guillain Barré Syndrome/Bullous Pemphigoid 1996
*Raynaud's Phenomena/SLE 2004
*Vasculitic Neuropathy 2007
dxd RA in 2005, Fibro in 2005 and Sjorgens 2007.
Neat thread!!!!
Type 1 Diabetes 1965Crohn's - June 2005
RA - Dec 2005
DXed JRA 25+ years ago.
DXed Fibro 2 months ago.
Working on seeing if I have anything else wrong with me. List might be growing by next month
graves disease-5yrs
ra-3yrs
RA-1 year
Hypothyroidism-3 months
Phats
RA at 19So far it's just RA for me, dx'd in April. Future's looking brighter all the time!
I've noticed in people's signatures that many have more than one disease. Does anyone ever only have one?
DXed JRA in 1984? ish? yes. 1984.Yes Katie there is hope but you are just a BABY. *sticks tounge out at Katie*
RA DXed about 1.5 years
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis 1983
Endometriosis 2004
Seronegative RA, Raynauds, possible vasculitis and FM 2007. It was not a good year.
Laker
< =text/>_popupControl();Let’s see…I don’t know how to answer the first part of this post since I was diagnosed 15 years ago and it didn’t take me long to get my diagnosis. We had really good docs at the time and I was diagnosed right off the bat. Plus with my family history that helped to make diagnosis a little easier. Over the past 15 years I have had ups and downs with times that I am like I am right now, and times that I have been in remission. I hope that makes some sense? I guess my first major onset was when I went to get diagnosed and then it has been up, down, and all around since then.
My other AI diseases are high blood pressure, asthma, fibro, I *had* endometriosis until I had a hysterectomy 5 years ago, and PCOS.
That’s enough and I hope that I don’t develop anything else!
Liz, is high blood pressure considered auto-immune? I've never heard that, but if so, then add it to my list (16 years).RA dx sept 2005. High blood pressure (if is is auto-immune?) a few months after dx of ra. Had gestational diabetes when preggo with my 14 year old son but blood glucose has been fine since.oh boy, let's see....
sero-neg. ra, fibro, and DDD about 3-4 years ago
sjogren's, raynaud's, peripheral neuropathy about 3 yrs ago
is endometriosis an auto-immune disease? I've had that for years and years and just had surgery for it and need more soon.
psorasis 1999
RA 2001
oh, and I forgot good old lupus, which I have had since ra dx44, Lupus, RA, Sjogren's, Raynaud's So much fun...Janie. too many < =text/>_popupControl(); According to my PCP hypertension is auto immune. I was kinda puzzled by that too. I was thinking if asthma was AI as well. If so I was dxd w/ asthma when i was 13 so that would have been '95?Grammie,
I think your PCP was on PCP when they told you that hypertension is AI. I have never heard that and can't imagine that is the case???
Phats
Hiatal Hernia - Age 40
Hypothyroid - Age 54
RA -Age 55
Endometriosis (had hystorectomy at 33)
RA, Fibro, Sjorgrens (secondary), asthma
I have irritable bowel syndrome, not inflammatory bowel disease, so I don't think that counts.
Diagnosed w/RA at 51 (2003). RD thinks I had milder form of it for long time. Once I went to RD I was diagnosed in 2 weeks. All my numbers and symptoms were off the chart so he didn't have to work very hard to figure it out.
I'll just go with the itis's/auto-immune: Adult Onset Still's Disease (diagnosed approx 12 yrs ago -- in all likelihood, I've had it 20+ yrs. Osteo-arthritis Degenerative Disk Disease Spinal Stenosis borderline hypothyroidism possible lupus (not definite diagnosis yet) would not allow fibro on my charts so I'm, still in denial about that one. Ehler-Danlos syndrome I have exceeded my three disease limit. |
I'm confused. I thought Osteoarthritis was a "wear and tear" condition, not autoimmune?
If I go by the list Jennee posted, I have the ones below. I also notice that people are listing DDD which I have also but I didn't see it on the list.
Do you guys think it would be interesting to just post "everything" we have, not just the conditions that are autoimmune? It would be interesting to see if other "non-autoimmune" conditions are common with people who have RA. What do you think?
it is wear and tear -- but note I did say that I would include the itis's. |
Islandwoman,
I'm sorry I wasn't very clear in my post. I was referring to Osteoarthritis being on the list at the website Jennee posted. It says it's autoimmune, but I've never heard that before.
http://www.aarda.org/research/research_display.php?ID=47
I just had a conversation with my RD about this, and he said...the younger you are and if you already have an autoimmune...most likely it is autoimmune. He said....look at the treatments we are giving you, and see if the pain has decreased. Because mine has gotten so much worse and has added the inflamation markers (seen in a xray) across the middle of my back, and then across the ribs...he is betting that it is autoimmune.
My list:
Psoriasis at 7yrs; 1973
Endometriosis dx at 14yrs 1980
Allergic Rhinitis dx 10yrs 1976
Psoriatic arthritis March 2007
Interstitial Cystitis Feb. 2007
Osteoarthritis October 2007
Also, High Blood pressure, glaucoma, cateracts, DDD, and Gerds.
So that is all of me!