Did start a thread in chat earlier but no response
Anyway, am now on my 3rd chest infection in 6 months. I seem to get every little thing going. I was diagnosed with CFS/ME and POTS a couple of months ago, but TBH although it has got worse in the last year or two, I think my immune system has always been a bit shit. Loads of throat infections/tonsillitis etc too.
My mum and grandma have a similarly 'prone' chest - and now it seems DS (3) is the same. None of us are asthmatic (although I believe my great grandfather was, and he died from complications), we just always get chest infections if we so much as sneeze, it seems
I don't smoke BTW.
In the process of my CFS referral I was tested for loads of stuff like lupus and other autoimmune disorders but they all came back clear. So is it just bad luck or what? Some kind of genetic weakness? It's really getting me down.
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Anyone know about immune systems, frequent infections etc?
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fuzzpig · 23/01/2013 14:44
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