sophiep- I am certain vaccines can trigger auto-immune diseases based upon my reaction to a Shingrex Vaccine. I had the Pfizer vaccines and boosters for covid without a reaction. I appreciate your info about the association of GD with the Moderna vaccine. For years I had a classic GD case- wrap around front and back torso rash, painful and itchy, the inital outbreak lasted a full year and then for years I would have 6 months of activity and 6 months of dormancy. I hope you have heard about using cilantro as a heavy metal detox to control or rid yourself of GD. Since I did this in spring of 2019 I no longer have ourbreaks, although I did get what I initially thought was a GD recurrance the end of 2019 within 3 day after getting the Singrix Vaccine for shingles. Yet rash on my front torso looked more like shingles as it was plaque like, whereas my GD was thousands of tiny individual papuales. I only lasted about 2-3 months The GD was dramatically more itchy and painful. I've never had that plaque like rash since. My derm then told me he was sorry I didn't check with him before I got this Shingles vaccine as he has read about and seen this vaccine give others this reaction.
Have you followed any GD blogs on the Mayo? I don't keep up with them anymore. This is where I learned about the association of GD with heavy metals and this metals detox works for a little less than 50% of of us that used ourselves as guinea pigs.
Kimass1 in Feb of 2019 learned about it and shared this info, but there are a couple Mayo GD blogs running at this time so try to find this one and follow the progress of those of us that tried it
I began it at the time I was about a month in to a new recurrance. It took me a few months to be positive it was working and it took about 2 years free of GD rash outbreaks to have my skin feel normal, like it did pre-GD, as it was still sensitive for a few years.
Google Heavy Metals tied to Dementia, Parkinson's and Grover's Disease. My brother has Parkinson's and my sister has GD. Her case is chronic but limited to only under her breasts, itching is very mild and she can't be bothered with the cilantro detox. I was desperate. Your case is so very severe it would be worth trying. Blood can be chelated, meaning the heavy metals can be filtered out, but doing this naturally at home was easy enough for me.