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Do You Have the Autoimmune Disease
“Super-Symptoms?” (October 2002)

The book Living Well With Autoimmune Disease features a more than 30-page checklist of risk factors and symptoms that may help pinpoint and close in on symptoms that suggest one of dozens of autoimmune conditions.

There are very specific symptoms found in particular conditions, but certain symptoms have been identified as what I call “super-symptoms,” which you tend to see in almost all autoimmune conditions.

What are some of these “super-symptoms?” Check off and see how many of these symptoms of an autoimmune disease that you have...

___ JOINT/MUSCLE PAIN

___ GENERAL MUSCLE WEAKNESS

___ INFECTIONS: Greater susceptibility and more frequent infections -- such as urinary tract, bladder, gum, skin or vaginal infections, as well as viruses -- and slower recovery from those infections

___ RASHES

___ FATIGUE

___ LOW-GRADE FEVER

___ NUMBNESS/TINGLING IN HANDS/FEET

___ DRY EYES / DRY MOUTH

___ WEIGHT LOSS: 10-15 pound range

___ HAIR LOSS

___ SHORTNESS OF BREATH: both general, and on exertion, feeling the need to yawn to get a full breath, or heaviness in the chest that makes breathing more difficult.

___ PALPITATIONS: feeling missed heartbeats, changes in rhythm, skipped beats, irregular heart rhythms, and other types of palpitations

___ RECURRENT MISCARRIAGE

___ DEPRESSION

___ CONCENTRATION/MEMORY PROBLEMS: difficulty thinking and concentrating – “brain fog”

The full 30-page Autoimmune Disease Risks and Symptoms Questionnaire is featured in the book Living Well With Autoimmune Disease.

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