Palindromic Rheumatism - Social Network

I an attempt to bring more awareness and more ways for people with PR & RA to connect, I have started the Palindromic Rheumatism Network. It is a social network for those afflicted with PR & RA. You can blog, engage in live chat with other members, post information, videos, photos, etc. Please check it out and become a member so that we can build a community for those living with PR & RA!


http://palindromicrheumatism.ning.com/

Complete List of Autoimmune Diseases

I personally don't spend much time on medical sites or association websites, because I find that the generic information about autoimmune diseases is often not as helpful to me as the stories and experiences told by real people. That said I wanted to provide a complete list of the autoimmune diseases, because when I came across the following list I recognized the large number of ways in which a broken immune system can manifest. Although some of our symptoms and manifestations are different, there are so many of us out there suffering from the same underlying system malfunction. We are united by that and together we can a difference in each others lives whether through mutual support, research, donations etc.

List of Autoimmune Diseases

• Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
• Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
• Addison's disease
• Agammaglobulinemia
• Allergic asthma
• Allergic rhinitis
• Alopecia areata
• Amyloidosis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
• Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
• Autoimmune aplastic anemia
• Autoimmune dysautonomia
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Autoimmune hyperlipidemia
• Autoimmune immunodeficiency
• Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
• Autoimmune myocarditis
• Autoimmune pancreatitis
• Autoimmune retinopathy
• Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP)
• Autoimmune thyroid disease
• Axonal & neuronal neuropathies
• Balo disease
• Behcet’s disease
• Bullous pemphigoid
• Cardiomyopathy
• Castleman disease
• Celiac sprue (nontropical)
• Chagas disease
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Chronic recurrent multifocal ostomyelitis (CRMO)
• Churg-Strauss syndrome
• Cicatricial pemphigoid/benign mucosal pemphigoid
• Crohn’s disease
• Cogans syndrome
• Cold agglutinin disease
• Congenital heart block
• Coxsackie myocarditis
• CREST disease
• Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
• Demyelinating neuropathies
• Dermatomyositis
• Devic's disease (neuromyelitis optica)
• Discoid lupus
• Dressler’s syndrome
• Endometriosis
• Eosinophilic fasciitis
• Erythema nodosum
• Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
• Evans syndrome
• Fibromyalgia**
• Fibrosing alveolitis
• Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
• Glomerulonephritis
• Goodpasture’s syndrome
• Graves' disease
• Guillain-Barre syndrome
• Hashimoto's encephalitis
• Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
• Hemolytic anemia
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura
• Herpes gestationis
• Hypogammaglobulinemia
• Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• IgA nephropathy
• Immunoregulatory lipoproteins
• Inclusion body myositis
• Insulin-dependent diabetes (type1)
• Interstitial cystitis
• Juvenile arthritis
• Juvenile diabetes
• Kawasaki syndrome
• Lambert-Eaton syndrome
• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
• Lichen planus
• Lichen sclerosus
• Ligneous conjunctivitis
• Linear IgA disease (LAD)
• Lupus (SLE)
• Lyme disease
• Meniere’s disease
• Microscopic polyangiitis
• Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
• Mooren’s ulcer
• Mucha-Habermann disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myositis
• Narcolepsy
• Neuromyelitis optica (see Devic's)
• Neutropenia
• Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
• Optic neuritis
• Palindromic rheumatism
• PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus)
• Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Parry Romberg syndrome
• Parsonnage-Turner syndrome
• Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
• Pemphigus
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Perivenous encephalomyelitis
• Pernicious anemia
• POEMS syndrome
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Type I, II, & III autoimmune polyglandular syndromes
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Polymyositis
• Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
• Postpericardiotomy syndrome
• Progesterone dermatitis
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Pyoderma gangrenosum
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Raynauds phenomenon
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Reiter’s syndrome
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Restless legs syndrome
• Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Schmidt syndrome
• Scleritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren's syndrome
• Sperm & testicular autoimmunity
• Stiff person syndrome
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
• Sympathetic ophthalmia
• Takayasu’s arteritis
• Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis
• Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
• Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
• Transverse myelitis
• Ulcerative colitis
• Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
• Uveitis
• Vasculitis
• Vesiculobullous dermatosis
• Vitiligo
• Wegener’s granulomatosis

**NOTE Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue are listed, not because they are autoimmune, but because many persons who suffer from them have associated autoimmune disease(s)

- The above information is courtesy of the American Autoimmune Related Disease Association (AARDA) http://www.aarda.org/