Chronic Inflammatory Deyelinating Polyneuropathy: A Case Study

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When I was seven years old I was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Which is an illness where the myelin sheath that protects the nerves has been damaged. This causes the signals from the brain to not reach the correct nerve. Such as the command to build muscle within your extremities or other areas of your body to go unnoticed.
Which in my case caused such effects of not being able to turn a door knob or go upstairs without having to sit and pull myself up. It also resulted in having to wear leg braces and have weekly IV-IG treatments along with many other problems. This illness lasted around eleven years. I still have residual effects from the duration of time my nerves were under attack. This was a very rough

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