Visit with doc today/ Parvovirus as a cause of Hashi's

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Hi all,

Well, after a few days of feeling like I was dying and almost going to

the ER twice, I went to my M.D. who is savvy about thyroid and adrenal

issues. She gave me an Rx for Cytomel, 5mcg. to be taken once/day,

but I'm going to cut that in 1/4 to start.

I also started up the hc again today prior to the visit. I only took

2.5 but it made a big difference. I started feeling a lot better,

heart calmed down, migrating pains went away. She wants me on it for

a week or two before starting Cytomel.

Also gave me some sub-lingual DHEA to try in about a month. I don't

want to try too many things at once. My DHEA was low on a saliva

test, but when I've tried to take it orally before it seemed to

convert to estrogen.

She goes to anti-ageing conferences where all the notables speak, such

as Thierry Hertoghe, whom she's met and spoken with. She's learning

quite a bit about various bacteria and viruses that become chronic,

but the medical community doesn't recognize them.

She mentioned the Parvovirus B19, how she is testing patients and

finding many of them show they have been infected with it, and she

puts them on a 30-day course of zithromax and it usually clears it up

and many of the complaints resolve. Which is odd, because antibiotics

don't normally kill viruses but for some reason, this one does. I

asked her why, and she said no one knows yet, whether perhaps the

virus hides in or attaches to bacteria, or what exactly the mechanism is.

This virus is better known as the 'slapped cheek disease " or " Fifths

Disease " .

My son had this several years ago. We didn't know what was wrong or

why his cheeks were bright red for several days, and he acted cranky

and irritable. Finally the school sent a note home saying that

Fifth's disease was going around, but that was after the fact.

Anyway, I didn't think much of it but a week or two later I started

feeling really achey and fatigued, then one day I woke up and this

scary red rash began at my ankles and went up to my thighs, totally

covering my legs It wasn't raised or itchy, just a lacey-looking

thing that is also called vasculitis. At the time I was working in

the ER and terrified I had contracted some hepatitis thing, so had my

doc do tests, but they were negative.

DH also felt fatigued. He did not get the rash, but felt like he had

arthritis in his hands.

This virus can cause several symptoms, such as those mimicing

arthritis, but it usually resolve, except in 10% of the cases it does

not, which shows it can cause problems long term.

But here's the kicker! It has also been implicated in triggering

autoimmune conditions, Hashimoto's being one of them.

***http://autoimmunedisease.suite101.com/article.cfm/human_parvovirus_b19_infect\

ion

Human Parvovirus B19, a species of parvovirus that infects humans, is

associated with the development of several different autoimmune

diseases including dematomyositis, mixed connective tissue diseases, a

lupus-like illness, a serologically negative (negative RA factor test)

form of arthritis, granuloma annulare, autoimmune thyroid disease,***

****Association of Parvovirus B19 Infection and Hashimoto's

Thyroiditis in Children

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/vim.2008.0001

There is strong evidence that acute parvovirus B19 infections are

involved in the pathogenesis of some cases of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.***

So after I've settled into a routine with the meds, I'm going to have

her treat me for this. I just wonder if this was the cause of me

getting Hashi's, but we'll never know. I do also wonder if it caused

me to develop adrenal antibodies that could be destroying my adrenals.

Anyway, I had read of stealth infections by various viruses and

bacteria, but never the Parvovirus, so this came as quite a surprise

to me.

Truly, with all this Lyme, stealth infections, and chemicals in the

environment, I guess we should be lucky we are alive at all.