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Anyone else have multiple autoimmune diseases?
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Just curious as I have Long COVID, which mimics many other autoimmune diseases, do any of you have a lot of stress, anxiety or trauma in your backgrounds? I believe that the adrenal gland has a lot to do with inflammation which seems to be the cause of so many terrible autoimmune issues.
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I'm sorry to hear you are living with Long COVID. Another virus, Epstein-Barr, changed my life for good. I have had PTSD twice in life, as a child and because of an earthquake where I had a near death experience and was out of my body for a split second looking down at the destruction of my home. Within weeks of that I became ill and it was the onset of Sjogrens, RA, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and also cancer. There is the story of stress and trauma in my background. I thought it would be a matter of healing psychologically. Instead I was introduced to living with chronic disabling illness ever after.
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@diverdown1 I believe the autoimmune disease associated with the adrenal gland is named Addison's disease (what JFK likely had). I have not found any info on the adrenal gland causing inflammation, so links to research would be good. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15095-addisons-disease