Yes, right here. Funny, but I never thought it might be connected to CP. I'm 27, with spastic hemiplegia (left side), and a list of disorders connected to it (sciatica, epilepsy, arthritis, excessive supination). And I've noticed that it's become more and more difficult to process too much stimuli. As a child, I was always very, very sensitive to any sort of temperature change or environmental change, and my doctors and therapists suggested it was because of the CP. My spasticity increases, I become irritable and anxious, very overwhelmed, and more prone toward seizures (I have temporal lobe epilepsy with partial seizures).
Thank you so much for bringing this up. Between this community and the epileptics community, I am finally starting to really understand myself and my disorders!
your welcome! you have sciatica too? i had to give up standing service jobs because of it, but now i get the shocks and tinglies whether standing or sitting. thanks for mentioning that secondary condition. i have spastic hemiplegia on the right side. the sciatica is now affecting on the left. right in time for my monthly 'friend' with endometriosis to boot!
on a side note, i wonder if people with CP are more susceptible to autoimmune/inflammatory disorders. i certainly am, and know a few others. but this gives me a thought, if a survey were ever done, to ask others about secondary conditions that they have, and see if there's a significant increase compared to the general population.
Hashimoto's hypothyroid, Type 1 diabetes, and myofacial pain. The latter we've attributed to my toewalking and other CP-related body mechanics. The first two, though?
Oh, and allergies and asthma too. I'm an immunological mess.
I'm trying to think of someone I know with CP who *doesn't* have an autoimmune disease.... well, my sister, I guess, lol! But I have allergies, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, a friend has Crohn's/asthma, another has chronic fatigue syndrome, I think *every* other good friend with CP has at *least* severe asthma and allergies, so yeah, it seems pretty common.
Although, I wonder if asthma should really be considered in this, cause asthma tends to be a result of prematurity, especially before synthetic surfactant was around...
Except that I wasn't that severely premature, and I didn't exhibit asthma symptoms until adolescence (and it's mild). So maybe I have asthma from being a preemie, and maybe I have it due to allery/autoimmune stuff (although I don't get asthma symptoms to the things I am allergic to. . . ) or maybe it's just a fluke. Oh wait. I was talking about me. Of course it's a fluke. . . !
So clearly we need a post in which we discuss our additional dxes. . .
*grin* I think I love you. After reading your comment, I finally get why I have so many health problems now in my adult years. The doctors when I was a kid never even bothered to warn me or my parents. And now I have epilepsy, asthma, severe allergies, joint inflammation and pain, constant fatigue, hypersensitivity, vision and hearing problems, Raynaud's Disease (by itself) ... Although I actually do not have an autoimmune disease. It may be something to watch for later on.
I'm 27, with spastic hemiplegia (left side), and a list of disorders connected to it (sciatica, epilepsy, arthritis, excessive supination). And I've noticed that it's become more and more difficult to process too much stimuli. As a child, I was always very, very sensitive to any sort of temperature change or environmental change, and my doctors and therapists suggested it was because of the CP. My spasticity increases, I become irritable and anxious, very overwhelmed, and more prone toward seizures (I have temporal lobe epilepsy with partial seizures).
Thank you so much for bringing this up. Between this community and the epileptics community, I am finally starting to really understand myself and my disorders!
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on a side note, i wonder if people with CP are more susceptible to autoimmune/inflammatory disorders. i certainly am, and know a few others. but this gives me a thought, if a survey were ever done, to ask others about secondary conditions that they have, and see if there's a significant increase compared to the general population.
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Oh, and allergies and asthma too. I'm an immunological mess.
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Although, I wonder if asthma should really be considered in this, cause asthma tends to be a result of prematurity, especially before synthetic surfactant was around...
*/wanders off to geek alone* ;)
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Except that I wasn't that severely premature, and I didn't exhibit asthma symptoms until adolescence (and it's mild). So maybe I have asthma from being a preemie, and maybe I have it due to allery/autoimmune stuff (although I don't get asthma symptoms to the things I am allergic to. . . ) or maybe it's just a fluke. Oh wait. I was talking about me. Of course it's a fluke. . . !
So clearly we need a post in which we discuss our additional dxes. . .
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I think I love you.
After reading your comment, I finally get why I have so many health problems now in my adult years. The doctors when I was a kid never even bothered to warn me or my parents. And now I have epilepsy, asthma, severe allergies, joint inflammation and pain, constant fatigue, hypersensitivity, vision and hearing problems, Raynaud's Disease (by itself) ... Although I actually do not have an autoimmune disease. It may be something to watch for later on.
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