I have RA, osteo, fibromyalgia and Hughes but when the consultant writes on blood test slips, he also writes MCTD. But a junior dr then said I had overlap syndrome with SLE. I looked that up but got even more confused with what it could be an overlap of. Any suggestions?
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please do not bother yourself by knowing the exact name of the disease as all autoimmune disease has overlap , that means if u have one systemic autoimmune disease u probably have high risk developping other one or one of symptomes of other one .
MCTD includes many disease one of is SLE (so it is not a big deal for me to know now which one exactly )
as i have same issue exactly and till now many many doctors are confused am i SLE with Sjogren or MCTD (7 years trying to know the accurate diagnosis and didnt) , but the end result same treatment , and nearly same symptomes
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