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Addt'l autoimmune disorder on the side?
Has anyone experienced other, seemingly unrelated autoimmune disorders, before their AA diagnosis?
My robustly healthy child had two bouts with pleurisy (following colds) in the year before her AA dx. I had always thought pleurisy was a disease of the elderly. Her pediatrician could not offer any explanation for why she was getting it, other than to say that her body was over-reacting to the presence of the cold virus. Her CBCs at that time were perfectly normal.
Since the AA dx, I have read that pleurisy also has an autoimmune connection. That makes me wonder if the pleurisy and AA are just two different venues of the body's war on itself? Has anyone else had something similar happen?
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