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Lesions on the brain and autoimmune disease

Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: May 15 2:14pm | Replies (54)

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@bwalker433

No I have not been tested for that well as far as I know at least ha. I have had 2 mri, alot of blood work and 1 xray. I am now seeing a rheumatologist due to my symptoms of joint pain, fatigue, vertigo, some days it's hard to walk and thinning of my hair. Neurologist did not think it was MS due to blood work and mri but didn't rule it out completely. She did not think my condition is nero but more rheumatoid so she referred me. I will have to do some research on GFAP.

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My husband also had lesions. He started with an unsteady gait and double vision which is what MS can present. At first they said it was lymphoma hiding somewhere and aggressively pursued that. It turned out that was not the case. They sent him home from the hospital after numerous MRIs, a brain biopsy and several lumbar punctures. They kept insisting it was between MS and Lymphoma. They said the lesions he had did not coincide with how MS presents lesions so they were very confused.
In November he had a relapse where he couldn’t walk at all. He went to Mt. Sinai in NYC where they again did numerous MRIs and blood and spinal taps. They sent all of the fluids to Mayo and they diagnosed it as GFAP.
He was put on high steroid treatment and anti rejection med and is now tapering them. They don’t know much at all about his disease, so we don’t know what the outcome will be when he is totally off the steroids.
I hope for your sake you won’t end up with this. Good luck to .