I'm not sure what is causing my autoimmune neuropathy but I can guess. Recently I read a book about such diseases and one comment stuck with me. Almost every adult in the U.S. has traces of 100 chemical compounds in their body. These are chemical compounds which were unknown a century ago. They come in our food, water, air, drugs, lotions, soaps, cleansers and so on. Any one of these chemicals could be mimicking a foreign substance that produces the bodies immune system to react or possibly stimulates cancers to grow.
My disease strikes males in the sixth decade of life, plenty of time to accumulate a wide variety of chemicals in system and time for them to fester until the body decides they need to be eradicated. The incidence of my disease is low and I imagine it will be years before someone discovers a cause and a cure.
I'll be seeing my neurologist again next week. I think I'm somewhat of a mystery to him, just as the cause of this disease is a mystery to me.
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