Association between Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Behçet's Disease, 2022

[pattismith]

Many ME/CFS patients are dealing with spinal stenosis/cervical instability.

I focus currently on Behcet as a possible comorbidity in ME/CFS or alternative diagnosis, because Behcet can be difficult to diagnose.
Like some other rhumatoid disease, it is often comorbid with spinal issues.

Abstract​

We evaluated patients with Behçet's disease who suffered neck or low back pain in the last one year..
Eighty four patients underwent musculoskeletal system examination with MRI imaging of the cervical and lumbar vertebrae, and serum levels of IL6 , IL8 and TNF‐α were determined .
The mean age was 47.7±11.5 (range 20‐68) years.
Cervical and/or lumbar herniation was detected in the MRI imaging of 65(77.3%) out of 84 patients.
The mean IL8 levels of the group with pain and disc herniation and the group with pain and bulging were statistically significantly higher than the other groups (p = 0.007; p = 0.045, respectively).

Chronic inflammation in Behçet's Disease may cause disc degeneration and radicular pain to begin and progress earlier in patients.

https://www.researchgate.net/public...tebral_Disc_Degeneration_and_Behcet's_Disease

 

[lenora]

Hi @pattismith.....do you also find the same thing in patients with EDS? Just wondering, I actually don't have it.....the vertebrae problems, yes, but not EDS. Yours, Lenora