cfs or autoimmune ??

[mumakez666]

Hey all

I really hope you can all help me,  I'm trying to make sense of all my symptoms.  I was diagnosed app 2 years ago with CFS. The doctor listened and looked back at my symptoms then done one blood test (for hyperthyroisism) then told me it was chronic fatigue syndrome.  I have that many different symptoms and i'm not even sure if it is cfs also i don't think my doctor really bothered to investigate it.  I haven't been right for at least 7 years and i'm not sure what to do.  I have no support from my partner or family as they just don't understand how ill i feel at times especially during a flare up!

Here's a background of my symptoms :

27 yo female

fatigue
malaise - flu like symptoms
myalgia - pain all over
mouth ulcers
i feel as though i have a temperature but i dont
joint and muscle pain
bad memory
brain fog
3 out of my 7 pregnancies ended in miscarriage
my last pregnancy i had preclampsia
which also stayed for 4 months after (post preeclampsia) (high blood pressure and uric acid)

Sometimes i'm ok i'll still have a sleep during the day but when i have a bad flare up i have all the symptoms in one go and just end up lying on the sofa :(

the last 8 weeks i have been consantly sick not only with the above symptoms but i had

pneumonia then i caught  cold and another chest infection, done my back in, then i got another cold and my throat was red raw, and then i had a flare up of my 'normal' problems myalgia etc.  and during all this i had about 7 mouth ulcers everytime i got rid of one i gained another!!!

so if any-one has any ideas of what can be wrong please please let me know

k xxxx

Sorry for the rant but i think you all know what its like to know something is wrong but there is nothing you can do!

[PlateletGal]

You may have an anbibody that wlil attack your baby if you are pregnant again. I think an Anti D antibody can do that, but there are also others (if I'm remember right)

For a CFS diagnosis... please check out these links and feel free to post in the fibro/CFS forum (I am the CL in the forum):

http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/list?cid=39

Diagnosing CFS (written for physicians... consider printing it out and discussing with your doctor):

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/235980-diagnosis

[mumakez666]

One thing i forgot to add was:

After i had my 1st son a doctor came to me and told me that i had an anti body that may attack the baby if i had another baby ?????

I had a son after this and they said they never had a record of it?? then i had 3 miscarriages and finally my 2 daughters

I just thought the whole thing was weird?