Posted by Fel
on 6/9/2004, 10:35 pm, in reply to "Re: I survived Legionnaires Disease"
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Hi Dorothy. Hair loss was one of the reasons why my Doc ran a thyroid test. Mine started to fall out 3 months after catching LD. Thyroid replacement worked and my hair is pretty well back to normal - coarse and thick!! Get your Doc to check your thyroid levels.
Other problems I've had include increased deafness which "expert" has put down to LD toxins and incapacitating back pain that "expert" thinks may have been due to immobility during and after LD.
Most Docs seem to see LD as a respiratory problem only and don't seem to connect other post LD health problems to LD.
Thank goodness I don't suffer confusion (debatable says my husband) or increased memory loss. Great site Great people will spread the word to my fellow Coach tour sufferers.
Regards Fel
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: Hi. I caught LD in Sept 2002 while on a coach
: tour of Europe. 2 weeks hospital in Colmar
: France. 10 victims 9 survivors.
: Slow recovery since with tiredness hair loss
: back pain. Diagnosed as hypothyroid Mar 2003.
: Fine before disease but "expert"
: says "pre-existing condition"
: Anyone else had Thyroid problems?
: :help I'm out here alone with my hair falling
: out and trying after six monthes to get on
: with it.I found this sight by accident. Will
: this be just a bump in the road or permanent?
: I should just be happy to be alive, shouldn't
: I? But I have always been so damn
: independant and to ask someone to help me,
: well that hurts more than I ever thought it
: would. To see the dates on the message board
: leaves me to believe there are us out there
: then I ever thought there would be.
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