common variable immunodeficiency

I had dyslexia, and I had anxiety.

I had some weird fixed false beliefs, but somehow managed to get through all of these schools and sports and so forth, and it turns out that I was around thirty-four, thirty-five, I got a really s- bad illness, and they diagnosed me with dengue fever and CVID, which is common variable immune deficiency syndrome.

And here I am, I'm thirty-four, thirty-five, and they put me on IVIG, and I was chronically ill.

And so, uh, having experienced that and, and not really understanding it, I wanted to take it upon myself to understand, like, how did I get sick and not be born with it? I ran into a practitioner, uh, named Jill Carnahan, who-- so she's like, "I think you have Lyme disease." After two years of antibiotics and the ups and downs, I was amazed where I didn't cramp anymore, I could read fluently, my dyslexia was better, my anxiety went away, and I was just in a better space.

We find that Lyme and Bartonella can cause immune deficiency.

with CVID, with chronic variable immune deficiency.

And I published this in the literature.

We get low immunoglobulin Gs.

And I would like to quote a sentence that can represent what I'm trying to share with the audience.

It's a disease that we call it CVID, or common variable immune deficiency, and this disease is actually, the people describe it is an old disease with new faces.

Yes.

What are the new faces? The new faces that we are t- talking today is we see some new faces that they present with a different presentation.

We appreciate all your efforts to improve your health and are excited to hear about those.

So you had a common variable immunodeficiency disorder or CVID.

I gotta be honest, Corey, I've been in this health stuff for 40 years, I've never heard of CVID, so why don't you tell us all about maybe what that is and then take us through your experience, please.

You're not alone.

It's...

Okay.

So he, he had a lot of respiratory issues, and that's what's most common.

I didn't have those, but my doctor just tested, just checked for CVID just in case, and turns out I had it too.