Guillain-Barre Syndrome

[em4411]

I am 16 years old. Recently I went to the hospital due to not being able to walk very well. Before all this started I had had a sore throat a couple of weeks before. The night before I went to the hospital, I had tingling in both my legs from my feet to my knees. It lasted for about 15 hours, and kept coming and going afterwards. After that I experienced severe weakness in my legs. It was so bad I couldn't stand for longer than 5 minutes. I got to the hospital and they told me I may have gbs I happened to have a friend with it so I called her. I told her what was wrong and she told me I had all the symptoms she did. When all the doctors came in they couldn't find anything wrong with me and told me it was all in my head and I wanted attention. My balance was off and I had lost one of the reflexes in my feet. I was in the hospital for about 3 days with them doing various tests. Later, when I was home, I started doing some research about GBS and found out that if it's mild then the symptoms may not extend beyond a feeling of weakness and it may improve on its own within a few weeks. My weakness lasted about a month or so and then got better. I've been through many tests that show nothing was wrong with me. I just wonder if I had the mild case. Please tell me what you think.

[kts]

It certainly sounds like you might of or you could be just relating to your friend and were worried about a strange feeling in your leg after your sorethroat. However, the lose of reflexs should indicate something real as opposed to being in your head, good luck

[em4411]

All this happened around the beginning of March. My friend was diagnosed with it in December. When I was in the hospital I didn't know exactly what my friend had. All I could remember was that it had a strange name. So after they told me I could have had it I called her. When she told me it was what she had, I became a lot more worried. Its just been bugging me that I never knew what was wrong. Thank you for your reply also.