My husband has been diagnosed by the VA as having peripheral Neuropathy. He takes 8 Vicodin a day for the pain. His symptoms began in 1977. In the coarse of two years he received 4 flu shots. 18 Feb 77 He got a Biovalent and Monovalent flu shot, and on 18 Jan 78 got another flu shot, and again on 15 Dec 78 yet another flu shot.
After 1977 flu shot he had a horrible rash, pain and swelling in hands and feet and then chest pains. He was 17 years old. As life went on he had lower back pains, horrific pains shooting through his upper body, problems with eye pain, headaches. He is now 50 years old.
He has had relapses, just last year chest pains. On one episode he had an extremely high CK level and they asked if he drank antifreeze.
Do you think any of this would be an indicator for GBS? We are asking that his VA doctor do a spinal tap to determine if so.
Thanks for weighing in.