This might be the dumbest question ever, but does having an autoimmune disease make it harder to get colds and flus, etc? I know that sometimes t hey give you immune suppressing drugs for AI diseases but you have to be careful to not get sick. I have Hashimoto's disease and since I was diagnosed, I havent even had so much as a cold and its been 3 years. Am I just lucky or is my immune system just working overtime?
Consider yourself blessed, not lucky! My mother has sjogren's syndrome (another type of an autoimmune disease) and she has to be extra careful not to get sick. She washes her hands all the time, takes her meds accordingly, and makes sure she gets enough rest. With autoimmune diseases, you are more prone to getting colds and flus, and when you do, you become very, very weak and it's hard for you to recover in the normal amount of time a healthy person would recover in.
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