Necrotising fascititis

[Lilan]

I also want to add that in 2010 I was diagnosed with shingles & then later on that year I developed necrotising fascititis luckily my leg was saved but I needed massive skin grafts .&I was very ill . Is there any connection to the fact I have an under active thyroid gland.? Lilian

[beaton]

Autoimmune? I don't know. I just know that I had a flu like illness thirty odd years ago and from then on have had an under-active thyroid.

[joprince in reply to beaton]

A virus is what can cause the antibodies to start up and these attack the thyroid but only the thyroid. Other antibodies can attack other parts of the body. I belive when I had flu many years ago this set off my antibodies and I ended up with Graves Disease which causes an overactive thyroid.

[ejh1]

I had meningitis, then got an underactive thyroid. I've always suspected that they are linked.

[sophiestry]

I don't know if this will help you but I have NF undiagnosed and hypothyroidism too udeiagnosed. And all the symtoms of fungal infection.

[JanePound]

My doctor in the USA speculated that any sort of shock can trigger your hypothyroidism. For me it was having a baby (that was definitely a shock to the system) and for my daughter it was having a broken ankle, followed by growth arrest in the joint and a bone graft. I think we probably have a hereditary weakness as other members of the family have hypothyroidism as well, but each of us had a different trigger.

Jane