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What is Guillain-Barré syndrome?

Guillain-Barré syndrome can affect anybody. It can strike at any age and both sexes are equally prone to the disorder. The syndrome is rare, however, afflicting only about one person in 100,000. Usually Guillain-Barré occurs a few days or weeks after the patient has had symptoms of a respiratory or gastrointestinal viral infection. Occasionally surgery or vaccinations will trigger the syndrome.

After the first clinical manifestations of the disease, the symptoms can progress over the course of hours, days, or weeks. Most people reach the stage of greatest weakness within the first 2 weeks after symptoms appear, and by the third week of the illness 90 percent of all patients are at their weakest.

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Comment from: joeo, 45-54 Male (Patient) Published: May 14

Got GBA in June 2010 after a severe stomach virus. Felt pretty good a week later then like overnight arms and legs became very shaky, to the point I could not walk. Very numb from neck down. Went to emergency room the doctor had seen it before and ordered a spinal tap. I was hospitalized for 19 days. Plasmatheresis every other day for 7 treatments. Totally paralyzed for 10 days before toe and finger movement began. The scariest feeling I have ever experienced in my life! No deserves this sickness. Know left with chronic neuropathy of the hands and feet, very prominent muscle fatigue in the shoulders and legs as well as the pain. Been a hard road but the good Lord knows what's best!

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Comment from: Kim, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: January 17

I had Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS )in 2002. My first symptoms appeared after a head cold. I went to work, had tingling in my feet and later vomited. I went home the next day had severe sciatic nerve pain and ended up passing out. My blood pressure was 50/30 when the ambulance came. I was in the hospital for 6 weeks with total paralysis but did not have to be on respirator. I still have numbness throughout my body (especially in my face) and extremities, also muscle weakness.

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