So this isn’t strictly about ME/CFS but as people here are learned and have various opinions about how stress and the immune system interact (possibly contributing to etiology of ME?) I thought I may as well ask.
My mother is going through a period of extreme stress with her mother’s extreme old age. My gran is in and out of hospital, and the doctor rang my mum at 4 in the morning around 6 months ago to say she may die, because she was in such a deep coma (back at home again now woo), and poof my mum immediately developed carpal tunnel in both hands at that exact moment. It has not abated since and is getting worse.
This is quite phenomenal, don’t you think? How the immune system must be breaking under the strain of the stress and then something tips it over the edge and it starts a focal attack on the body, specifically both of her lower arms and hands.
How does one understand this? And how might one approach treatment? Anti-inflammatories? Things to lower cortisol ashwaganda(sic) phosphatidylserine? General destressing (meditation?). I just don’t know where or how to begin to help her. Is the general opinion that these aberrations of the immune system can be reversed or they are with one for ever more?
I hope you don’t mind the tag but @Hip I see your extensive learning on immunity. And anyone else that may have an opinion or experience in treating similar autoimmunity. Thanks
My mother is going through a period of extreme stress with her mother’s extreme old age. My gran is in and out of hospital, and the doctor rang my mum at 4 in the morning around 6 months ago to say she may die, because she was in such a deep coma (back at home again now woo), and poof my mum immediately developed carpal tunnel in both hands at that exact moment. It has not abated since and is getting worse.
This is quite phenomenal, don’t you think? How the immune system must be breaking under the strain of the stress and then something tips it over the edge and it starts a focal attack on the body, specifically both of her lower arms and hands.
How does one understand this? And how might one approach treatment? Anti-inflammatories? Things to lower cortisol ashwaganda(sic) phosphatidylserine? General destressing (meditation?). I just don’t know where or how to begin to help her. Is the general opinion that these aberrations of the immune system can be reversed or they are with one for ever more?
I hope you don’t mind the tag but @Hip I see your extensive learning on immunity. And anyone else that may have an opinion or experience in treating similar autoimmunity. Thanks