knackers323
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Can a immune system overreacting in an auto immune illness cause sore and swollen glands or is it only when a current infection is present?
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Can a immune system overreacting in an auto immune illness cause sore and swollen glands or is it only when a current infection is present?
Ok then, so those with cfs and sore and/or swollen glands in the neck should probably be looking for an active infection?
Hi mate,Ok then, so those with cfs and sore and/or swollen glands in the neck should probably be looking for an active infection?
Hi mate,
You would be right .... Try and convince a doctor that .... To them it is usually about the size .... The 'infection' is undetectable using regular procedures ..... Seems to me that it is probably a combination of bacteria acting in the same way ....
It depends on whether they are anterior or posterior. And even if they are the anterior type most often seen with infection I am not sure that that has to be due to infection. If certain forms of ME were due to an autoimmune or autoinflammatory response that mimicked the response to infection then it might be indistinguishable from infection. After all, the symptoms we get in neck nodes with infection are mostly due to the immune response rather than a direct effect of a microbe.
Hi @Jonathan Edwards
When a healthy person has been getting little sleep, working too hard etc. and gets run down and complains of a site throat or glands in neck would this mean they have likely caught a new infection or it is one that was already there that the body has been able to keep under control previously?
Your neck glands drain the tonsils which are constantly responding to bacteria in the throat just from the air and food - there does not need to be any infection there - the bacteria are on the outside and the reaction is probably mostly to dead rubbish. When we get run down or have some other form of illness our immune system may shift levels of cytokines so that normal activities in the tonsils may become apparent as sore glands. I doubt it has much to do with infections that were 'under control' and then not - that chiefly applies to the herpes viruses that give cold sores or shingles when latent virus re-emerges - that is not a common situation with other viruses.
Dear Doctor,
I've had back neck swelling for 2 years and the back of my head went numb from loss of blood flow and after being beaten unconscious I was disfigured and lost my sight from Bell's Palsy. I began taking rocephin+gentamicin+clarithromycin+vitamin C and for 8 days I had neck pain and the swelling went down some.
I am waiting for a Lyme Elisa test and have been disabled from brain fog and central apnea, PLMD seizures, hypnic jerks. I have the herpes virus and had shingles. what kind of infection do I have?
So could tonsilectomy possibly increase blood flow to the brain and help cognition?
Thanks so much
Hi Knackers,Hi @Elph68 I know you say we can't test for this but are there any signs or anything that indicates that this these bugs are causing problems?
Especially those a with no visable symptoms like the geographic tongue etc.
It is my understanding that many well people also have gut flora containing these bugs so why are they not sick as well?
And finally how exactly would we go about treating it?
Thanks
knackers excellent question. I once had a GP who insisted my sore glands could be caused by depression LOL
you can get them with infection but also with "autoimmune disease", but that might be infection too
knackers excellent question. I once had a GP who insisted my sore glands could be caused by depression LOL
you can get them with infection but also with "autoimmune disease", but that might be infection too