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Anyone diagnosed with autoimmune issues as your hormones have changed. I was diagnosed with ms, then asthma a couple years after that. I know as we get older these things can happen. I wonder if a decrease in our hormones play a part. I'd like to know what others have experienced and if you think hormones play a part. All my difference symptoms it's hard to know what's causing them.
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Gypsy014 michelle92591
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Yes I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, and Hashimotos ..my rheumatoid factor was in the 300s and my antibodies for thyroid was 48000 crazy high.. I do feel definitely hormones are to blame ..never felt so bad in all my life until I hit 45.. Granted I had issues here and there with things but never this awful.. What are your symptoms? And do you feel hormones are to blame for yours?
michelle92591
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Thanks for your response. I was 47 when diagnosed with ms. I had lots of tingling that wouldn't go away, had a mri it showed some lesions. I don't smoke and rarely drink ,was walking a couple miles a day. I also was helping my husband run a restaurant. I knew hormones were changing around age 45. Periods were irregular ,then the sweats. At fifty was told I had asthma. Its bee two years of inactivity. I have never felt so crapy. Can't prove the hormone theory,but i don't think it helps.
katrina12440 michelle92591
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Hi Michelle,
Im sorry to hear that. When you say you had lots of tingling, was it all over or in specific parts of your body? Was it constant or intermittent? Did you have any other symptoms?
Sorry to be asking, but I have tingling down one side of my body, off and on and am really worried about it. I also have very hot stiff fingers/hands in the morning and at night. The list goes on and on. There is always something happening...
michelle92591
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I had tingling on mostly my right side of my body. Its hard to explain, like a tingling and numbness. It lasted about six weeks. I rarely get it now. I am also tired,but that comes with an autoimmune disease. I did go on some medicine for ms. It was a newer med. It made things worse so i went off it. I believe it gave me respiratory infection that led to my asthma. My pulmonologist said it's possible,but i can't prove that. I did get a second opinion and he did agree that i had ms. I must say reading on this site a lot of women seem to experience this. Hormones may be to blame. Take care