Had toncillitis twice last spring, then found out I had a brain tumor and later heard they wanted to operate it quickly. Guess that ticks both the health and stress check-boxes Oh yeah, I also started at a new job last spring so there is that too.. And was real worried about my 7 year old son in the summer as he was developing an eating disorder and started to lose weight while I was myself in pretty bad shape due to the operation and couldn't leave the house much.
The surgery wound was infected with Staph. Aureus, and I had some infection in my nose which might have been the same. There are some articles which say a Staph infection in the nose could trigger Wegs. So I taken like 5 times antibiotics by then (two for the tonsillitis and three for my nose before I got to the hospital where the antibiotics in the IV finally took care of the infections)
Anyway, doesn't really matter that much. I mean had someone sad there is one-in-a-million chance to get some weird disease after going to surgery then it wouldn't really had changed my mind. I guess if I got some better instructions for taking care of the wound it might not had become infected, but dunno. That's just speculation.
What is interesting and what I haven't read in any research papers is that a few women seem to get vasculitis after giving birth. Met one who got it after getting her first child, and I guess an author who wrote a book about vasculitis had that happen. Wonder if any of our members had that happen?
The rheumy who gave a lecture to us once about vasculites said that extreme physical activity (like running a marathon) can trigger a relapse. So was intererested if it can also start the vasculite, like for instance in those couple of cases where it started after giving birth.
Diagnosed 08/2013, Relapse 07/2014, Relapse 5/2017 (although early signs of it from 12/2016)
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