Hi. I have a friend who has a weakend immune system due to medications from a transplant. She is now worried she contracted an STD from her boyfriend who cheated on her. She is not showing any symptoms although she still plans on getting tested. We were curious, however, if she is more likely than a person with a regular immune system to show symptoms or not?
When I get sick with a cold, or any virus that invades my body, my immune system attacks it and I get better. Because I have had HepC for so long, and my immune system has constantly been trying to battle it, doesn't that mean that it has not had the same strength to battle other illnesses at the same time? When I look back, before I knew I hade HepC, everytime I even got a cold, it took me about 2 to 3 weeks to get rid of it and everyone else in my family was over it in 4 to 5 days.
Too many people believe and tell others that in MS we have a depressed immune system. The reverse is true. One or more parts of our immune system are overactive, thus suppressing other parts and some parts are out of whack. Taking a generic "immune-boosting" supplement may work against us by rev'ing up the wrong part of the immune process. I think this caution is mostly theoretical, but it makes sense to me.
Are there any symptoms of an immune system response? I'm trying to figure out if I just have a small flu bug or if I am having some sort of response.
Yesterday I was all stuffy and my sinuses were bothering me, a lot of mucus was coming out of my nose. I also got very tired early on (this has not happened to me in a while) and when I slept over night, I got chills, ache joints, was having a hard time sleeping and my stomach was bothering me.
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