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I feel some crucial information is missing here. MTX is used commonly for rheum conditions but...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1151184/
from an autoimmune disorder (mixed connective ... tissue disease)? ... getting a second opinion to clarify the issue
Discussion: Is starting methotrexate "overkill "
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Oct 3, 2024
I'd like to give an update. Margaret Redfield, MD, Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, gave me a...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/103040/
my heart failure seems to be either connective ... tissue disease (Mayo Clinic favored ... catheterization to take for samples of heart tissue
Discussion: Stiff Heart - diastolic heart failure
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Feb 22, 2020
@lillone43 nice to meet you and welcome! I have multiple diagnosis, including EDS. It was a...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/170405/
physicians that are familiar with the disease ... you with rheumatologist, infectious disease ... one moment at a time, EDS and any connective ... tissue disease is complicated, hang
Discussion: Doctors can't decide on diagnosis
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Sep 28, 2017
Oh, I'm so sorry. The acronyms are blood tests that are routinely run for autoimmune disease...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1257241/
that are routinely run for autoimmune disease ... (and MCTD is Mixed Connective Tissue ... Disease and SLE is a form of Lupus)
Discussion: Could High Anti-U1 RNP with Negative ANA be MCTD?
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Mar 13, 2025
@wyomingmiller208 Looks like it’s been more than 3 years since you posted. Hopefully you got good...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1508984/
conclusion was that I had an “underlying connective ... tissue disease not otherwise specified ... number for me was 4.0 cm with the connective ... tissue disorder.
Discussion: Ascending aortic aneurysm with connective tissue disorder
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Feb 18 2:31pm
@ellashab I am sorry that you are going through this! First I want to thank you...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/816684/
been diagnosed with undifferentiated connective ... tissue disease and CIDP, and I understand
Discussion: MCTD (Mixed Connective Tissue Disease)
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Feb 24, 2023
@windyshores - I just care about my health. Being that is is obvious I have an...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1190131/
treated to resolve the underlying issue ... done to rule out sjogrens, lupus and connective ... tissue disease.
Discussion: ANA Titer 1:1280 pattern homogeneous and speckled o/w negative work-up
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Dec 14, 2024
I am Canadian. I have noticed that our treatments tend to be different than in the...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1220067/
As far as the dental connection and ... person experienced in the ways of Mixed Connective ... Tissue. ... Disease. Sincerely, Charlotte
Discussion: How do you cope with Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD)?
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Jan 23, 2025
Hello @jkay2418, I can speak a bit to this. I have PA, IBS, Celiac disease, am...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/638110/
I have PA, IBS, Celiac disease, am vegetarian ... , and have an autoimmune connective ... tissue disease. ... came to the celiac-vegetarian-ibs issue
Discussion: I have questions about Pernicious Anemia + IBS + FODMAP
Support Group: Blood Cancers & Disorders
Posted: Sep 23, 2021
I was diagnosed with lupus in the 90s. Initially, it was tumid lupus which is a...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1424637/
Motility issues. ... Now the diagnosis is mixed connective ... tissue disease, meaning a little bit
Discussion: Anyone else have fibromyalgia and hypothyroidism?
Support Group: Fibromyalgia
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Hello @wyomingmiller208, I want to welcome you to Mayo Connect. I can understand your concern in...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/788881/
I want to welcome you to Mayo Connect ... What We Can Do and Not Do https://connect.mayoclinic.org ... Aortic Aneurysm and Exercise https://connect.mayoclinic.org ... Tissue Disorder https://connect.mayoclinic.org ... /discussion/mctd-mixed-connective-tissue-disease
Discussion: Ascending aortic aneurysm with connective tissue disorder
Support Group: Aortic Aneurysms
Posted: Dec 26, 2022
I have had CTP since my open heart surgeries. I had 2, 5 months apart. The...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/966489/
that and everything else that goes w connective ... tissue disease, I'm in constant
Discussion: Chronic Thoracic Pain
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Nov 17, 2023