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Type 2 Is type 2 an autoimmune symptom too?

Hi @luna50 I was reminded today how important leptin is and how leptin resistance exists.
I wanted to thank you recently for making me aware of the feature leptin has on insulin resistance. I also look forward to recent research findings in children.
Link below is just an explanation of leptin but just about to try and search for related research.
http://www.m.webmd.com/diet/features/the-facts-on-leptin-faq
for other's interest.
Thanks again.
 
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ickihun said:
I agree with @Mep .
I had a ruptured appendix (small intestine inflammation too) first then bell's palsy, then hypothyroidism, then pcos and then diabetes (diagnosed).
I believe I had diabetes first which led to others..... what's next for me?
Bell's palsy was treated with steriods then, I believe not so much now. Or at least they keep changing their mind.
They didn't think bell's palsy was an autoimmune symptom then.
Its described as nerve inflammation of the face.
Diabetes was showing when I was 6yrs old. Horrific thrush and thirst and obesity.
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Since this post I'm now suffering with pelvic joint inflammation and being investigated for heart inflammation with palpatations, dizzyness, shakes and breathlessness. I'm going to push for an auto-immune test.
 
Contralto said:
I have Hashimoto's. Additionally, most of America and Europe has Epstein Barr. There are bunches of things that can be tested for beyond a rheumatoid factor or two.

Try to get them to test for subclasses of IgA, IgG, as well as the other immunoglobulins. You might have no autoimmune disorders and yet have a wonky immune system. For some of these, yu can have infusions and build them back up if you are low. For something like low IgM, you can do nothing but at least you would be forewarned that you are less likely to fight off things and be extra cautious like not eating food in a food serve it yourself line and having extra caution about what kinds of things you eat outside your house you didn't make yourself, using barriers between yourself and unknown bacteria, for example a itssue between you and a doorknow and then that gets thrown away, carrying sanitizer, giving up kissing strangers like on the cheeks and whatever. Knowledge is power.
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I think your spot on. Just recovering from a cold sore from kissing my mum as she has been great with me lately and I wanted her to know. Either my mum or hotel coffee cups!
 
My GI specialist let me know yesterday that it's likely I have auto immune problems considering I was diagnosed with type 2 at a young age. It's possible my GI dysmotility problem is auto immune too... well he thinks it's likely. They have different immune panels they can check and he said that the problem is that immune suppressant therapy comes with bad side effects... also not everyone responds to it. I had an article from Mayo Clinic that I showed him but it did say they found auto immune markers in 70% of those who participated in their study, but most of them never responded to the immune suppressant therapy. I just always assumed I didn't have any auto immune problem.... but maybe I'm wrong. Whatever the cause is, my problems have been getting worse over the years too.
 
Mep said:
My GI specialist let me know yesterday that it's likely I have auto immune problems considering I was diagnosed with type 2 at a young age. It's possible my GI dysmotility problem is auto immune too... well he thinks it's likely. They have different immune panels they can check and he said that the problem is that immune suppressant therapy comes with bad side effects... also not everyone responds to it. I had an article from Mayo Clinic that I showed him but it did say they found auto immune markers in 70% of those who participated in their study, but most of them never responded to the immune suppressant therapy. I just always assumed I didn't have any auto immune problem.... but maybe I'm wrong. Whatever the cause is, my problems have been getting worse over the years too.
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Your post rang a bell. I read an article yesterday that norwegians need more morphine than other races. Maybe me and you need stronger meds for immune suppressant therapy? Not saying due to race but genes definitely can influence a lot!
 
ickihun said:
Your post rang a bell. I read an article yesterday that norwegians need more morphine than other races. Maybe me and you need stronger meds for immune suppressant therapy? Not saying due to race but genes definitely can influence a lot!
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Yes possibly... I think I'm a european mixed bag in my ancestry. lol. I'm clutching at straws trying to find answers because my concern is I'm on all these drugs to treat the symptoms and no one seems to know the cause of quite a few things I have. So when I saw that Mayo had done a study on one of my problems and that 70% of their patients had these particular auto immune markers they checked them for... sort of indicates to me that it is an immune attack on the GI tract. But as my GI specialist said it is just one theory and there are more. For me though he thinks it's highly likely I have auto immune causing some of my problems at least.
 
Anyone who suffers with an autoimmune condition can probably benefit from watching Dr Alessio Fasano's lecture on the aetiology of autoimmune diseases:

 
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