Multiple Medical Problems

[Norsk10]

Multiple Medical Problems are usually target-organ manifestations of one underlying disease process. The disease process is usually autoimmune in nature and the "trigger" or cause for systemic autoimmunity has the capability in causing a highly variable autoimmune respone since it is a microorganism that has a complex antigenic make-up and so the antibodies that humans develop in response to the antigenic challenge are also autoantibodies since the microorganism has many chemicials within its walls that mimics human tissue.

So, those who have multiple medical problmes, like heart disease and cancer, and back pain, and head aches, and like explosive personality, like celiac disease, like ulcerative colitis, like Crohn's disease, like trigeminal neuritis, like rheumatoid arthritis, like lupus, like torticollis, like depression, like schizophrenia, like Alzheimer's, like....the list is enless, nearly, because most diseases that strike people are simply target-organ manifestations of the variable autoimmune disease in question.

Yours, Norsk10

[Naominjw]

Multiple Medical Problems are usually target-organ manifestations of one underlying disease process. ...

So, those who have multiple medical problmes, like heart disease and cancer, and back pain, and head aches, and like explosive personality, like celiac disease, like ulcerative colitis, like Crohn's disease, like trigeminal neuritis, like rheumatoid arthritis, like lupus, like torticollis, like depression, like schizophrenia, like Alzheimer's, like....the list is enless, nearly, because most diseases that strike people are simply target-organ manifestations of the variable autoimmune disease in question.


Absolutely. And then there is the underlying biological stress causing the immune system to be going awry.

At one time, my daughter (a child) had over 15 diagnoses ranging from migraines, to schizophrenia (schizoaffective). We parents felt that it was all intertwined -- all one thing, but the medical care is compartmentalized into specialties and do not talk to each other. They even ignored many things for a long time saying it was all part of the mental illness instead of the other way around -- the mental illness was part of the whole constellation of medical issues with some underlying pathophysiology (http://www.itsnotmental.com) connecting them all.

Her GP was spot on when he said that when a person has that many diagnoses it means the doctors really have no idea what is going on.