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What a rubic cube of a diagnosis.
You know my son who had reactive arthritis following knee surgery has had a persistent issue with multiple levels of cervical and thoracic spine. He has two artificial discs and multiple levels of fusion. He had one really scary episode of infection he was hospitalized for after a fusion - the infection was sitting on the artificial disc - which of course has no circulatory system, and therefore won’t respond to it antibiotics. They had to go back in to essentially wash down the device with antibiotics
I’m now wondering if all of that may not be related to the reactive arthritis of years earlier.
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"I’m now wondering if all of that may not be related to the reactive arthritis of years earlier."
Probably.
The thing I found most intriguing about autoimmune disease is "immune memory."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067599/
My rhematologist believes this is a factor in my case. He simply says my immune system isn't likely to "forget" what it has been attacking for so many years. What a dreadful thing to say.
I prefer to think my immune system just needs to be reset and needs to start over. It is just deranged but hopefully it will eventually figure out what it is supposed to do. I'm still optimistic.