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Have you had onset Myasthenia gravis or triggered/worsened symptoms that occur after having pneumonia?
Have you had onset Myasthenia gravis or triggered/worsened MG symptoms after having pneumonia?
“Pneumonia is an infection that affects one or both lungs. It causes the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs to fill up with fluid or pus. Bacteria, viruses, or fungi may cause pneumonia” https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/pneumonia#:~:text=Pneumonia%20is%20an%20infection%20that,or%20fungi%20may%20cause%20pneumonia.
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I believe I had mostly ocular MG for many years, but did not realize what it was. I began having gMG symptoms around 1995 but they were mild. Then in 2001 I got pneumonia pretty bad. It was starting then that the symptoms increased dramatically. I saw a primary care doctor for it, and when he finally referred me to a specialist, that doctor told me he would have had me in the hospital if I had been sent sooner. I had so much trouble breathing that I do not know if it was from the pneumonia, from gMG, or both. When I finally got over the pneumonia, symptoms leveled off, and I was diagnosed and treated for gMG in 2007. I take only Mestinon, 60 mg every 3 hours while awake. I do fairly well, but I’m quite limited in what I can do in a day and I have to pace myself all the time.
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