family relations

[JanW]

I'm like Sangye - no one in the family has an autoimmune disease.

[pberggren1]

My mom's cousin has Giant Cell Arteritis.

[drz]

Several decades of exposure to processed food, pesticides, plastics, increasing use of chemicals in the home, air pollution, water pollution, use of antibiotics in farm animals, genetically-modified crops, etc.....

I think many people agree with this statement. Wegener's is reported to be rather rare as in 1 case per 20,000 or 30,000 people. I doubt I know a thousand people and I know of half dozen people in my community with Wegener's disease but we have been exposed to considerable pollution at work and in our community.

[pberggren1]

I think many people agree with this statement. Wegener's is reported to be rather rare as in 1 case per 20,000 or 30,000 people. I doubt I know a thousand people and I know of half dozen people in my community with Wegener's disease but we have been exposed to considerable pollution at work and in our community.

Where do you live drz?

It seems to me I have heard of a case of a community in Montana where there were a few Weggies in one town. A mining town I think.

[drz]

Where do you live drz?

It seems to me I have heard of a case of a community in Montana where there were a few Weggies in one town. A mining town I think.

Our pollution came from a garbage burner in town and a coal burning power plant in town. The building we worked at was 100 years old with lots of asbestoes, mold, and next to garbage burner. Our drinking water comes from lakes and rivers which is this rural area are heavily contaminated with mercury, pesticides, and fertilizers from farming operations since fields run off into rivers and drinking water.

[marta]

Well i'm gonna sashay in and wipe ya all out with my family.

My mum is arthritc and has been on Methortrexate and pred...now off the meth, still on the pred

My grandad had a rare form of Lupus

So although WG doesnt run in the family...the auto immune diseases are still there.

Hey FSG, I'm sashaying in right behind you.... my sister has psoriatic arthritis and went through her own pred days (her arthritis is under control but she still gets the psoriasis when she's stressed out), and my dad also has a rare form of Lupus.

[marta]

Our pollution came from a garbage burner in town and a coal burning power plant in town. The building we worked at was 100 years old with lots of asbestoes, mold, and next to garbage burner. Our drinking water comes from lakes and rivers which is this rural area are heavily contaminated with mercury, pesticides, and fertilizers from farming operations since fields run off into rivers and drinking water.

I also work in a bulding that's a hundred years old (a National Historic Site actually) and just went through a major face lift (I think it had asbestos in the basement), but there are three of us that worked in about a 10 foot radius that are all sick with weird diseases right now. I've been diagnosed with WG, my other co-worker with Lyme disease - and that diagnosis took a long time, and the third is as of yet undiagnosed but I've talked to you guys about her symptoms on another thread. Kinda spooky.