> 0n (09 Aug 05) Barbara McNay wrote to Cindy Haglund...

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 >>  Yep. And another interesting thing about inherited
 >> disease, what is
 >> expressed might NOT be the same exact variety. when a
 >> woman I read of
 >> had breast cancer though her mother and grandmother
 >> had it, her doctor
 >> found her type wasn't the same as theirs. hmm.

 >  BM> And even in some diseases, the same set of symptoms can be manifested
 >  BM> (or not) in an infinite variety of ways.

 >  Yep... For example just about every type of disease
 > effects the
 > digestive system and the nervous system in different
 > ways. That's why
 > I always roll my eyes when reading 'symptoms' listed
 > in generic faq
 > type websites. What needs to be described as well as
 > those obvious
 > ones, is the TELL TALE symptoms. OFten these are only
 > discernible by
 > blood tests/ urine tests, biopsies etc.

 > I found out recently btw with lyme disease the tell
 > tale 'ring' that
 > forms around the bite can be irregular and fades in
 > time. That's
 > what makes this disease so hard to diagnose.

 > I was reading too recently how the symptoms of female
 > hormone imbalance.
 > Reading the chart you notice *with a headache coming
 > on- the symptoms
 > (behavioral mostly) for lack in one are the same as
 > symptoms for excess in
 > the other. I guess the only way to really know if what
 > we are out of
 > whack with is a blood and or urine test.

Yes, there are so many variables, and so many similar diseases, that you
can consider several possibilities.

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