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Subject: MG Review My husband who is 54 was diagnosed with MG in 1995. He had a thymectomy at that time and a very rocky course following surgery for about 6 months when he required high dose Prednisone (100mg/day for almost a year), plasmaphresis (which was very effective) and has had IGA infusions (series of 3-4) about once a year since that time. He works full time as a high shchool teacher and part-time with church music. He has had a great summer although he has only been able to taper the Prednisone to 15mg one day/ 9 the next at this time. For the last 6 weeks he becomes very weak in the afternoon and evening and has some difficutly in walking and his speech becomes much weaker though not severly. He has recently had an antibody titer which is about 1.4--It was as high as 200 when he was most ill. We don't know why he is having this continued weakness with no apparent cause. Anybody give us any ideas or suggestions? Thanks vey much. | |
