Brother Helps Diagnose Sister With Rare Guillain-Barré Syndrome | Megyn Kelly TODAY

He’s going to be an excellent doctor, if he doesn’t change. I need one like that.

My mother had this in 2005. She was in hospital for weeks & doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. I searched internet & found GBS. I printed page & gave to my sister to ask neurolist if that could be it. Turned out it was. Scary that I have HS diploma & I diagnosed it where neurologist could not

My son (7) also got GBS in June of 2017. This is an extreme illness that causes massive destruction within hours! In his case he had an a-typical GBS where it not only affected his gross motor skills but also his nervous system. Thankfully he's also fully recovered!

My daughter had this in 2005. I took her to emergency room and they sent us home. I took her back a few hours later because she was so much worse. They wanted me to take her home again because they couldn't justify hospitalizing her with out a diagnoses. I demanded that they call her pediatrician and that I wouldn't take her home. Her face looked like she had a stroke, she had numbness in her legs and terrible pain. Her pediatrician came, examined her and took about ten minutes on the phone. She came to me and said go pack a bag, an ambulance is coming to take her to children's hospital. She told me she believed she knew what was wrong. By the time we got to the other hospital my daughter was almost completely paralyzed. She was there almost two months being treated and then having multiple forms of therapy a day. Learning to walk, talk, feed herself etc. she is considered fully recovered but I can see her face sags when she is tired and she can not smile like she used to.

As a survivor of GBS..she was very fortunate!

I had GBS when I was 17 almost 20 years ago. It was horrendous. Wishing you a healthy future. ❤️🙏🏽

I am 54 years young, and I was diagnosed with Guillain Barre in June 2018. MS was mentioned while my doctors were looking for my diagnosis. Meningitis was also mentioned. The GBS is still being discovered in the medical community and the symptoms are so varying from patient to patient. I began with UTI symptoms and within a few days I was to the point of becoming paralyzed in my legs. I did not get into respiratory failure such as this young lady did, but I wasn't far from it. Luckily I had an excellent primary care doctor who was spot on with an initial diagnosis. I am still in my recovery, as it will take me many months to be able to walk freely, as I am now needing just a cane. And YES, I always had a flu shot...but...not this year, or ever again. I am per mentally exempt from getting another one. Hoping to hear from more people with this disorder. Thank you for doing this story!

May God Keep Blessing her, her friend, Brother and the rest of her family!!!

I just got GBS 2 months ago.... 2020... It gets worse before it gets better. Stay strong all of you.

Nice to have a brother that loves you so much!!

I took a pathophysiology class before starting nursing school. While working in home health one of my coworkers who had been feeling really off and seeing doctors decided he couldn’t stay for his shift and needed to go home. I asked him about his symptoms and he had the classic symptoms of Guillian Barre and to my amazement I remembered this and told him to look into it. He called me later and thanked me because it was indeed that. It strengthens my resolve to go into nursing when times get tough I think back to how cool that was and keep pushing through it . Knowledge is power !

Smart and caring brothers and sisters is where it’s at! ❤️

Wow, that is terrific. He diagnosed from his professor . I thought there was a Mayo Clinic near there in Panama I believe. My wife fell to the floor right after telling me she felt like lightening had traveled through her whole body. She got up to go to the bathroom and fell to the floor. I took her immediately to the ER and she had a was diagnosed by a Neurologist by an epidermal test. Thankfully it did not affect her whole body like this young lady. It was her legs and feet. After months of therapy she is still only able to walk with a type of walker with wheels. She is 70 so as we age healing is not as easy. It started in December of 2019, it's now 2022. God Bless her and the Neurologist and may she walk again. God I know you are watching. She is a very strong, brave soul.

😭🙏🏼💕✨so happy for her!! What an amazing family & awesome friends

Lucky Girl....her brother saved her life

No, Megyn, she said she did NOT have anxiety. She said that the doctors were telling her she was just anxious but clearly anxiety wasn’t the culprit! ❤️💕❤️💕❤️

This is always one of the possibilities they talk about on House MD, like literally whatever the symptoms they're like "maybe Guillain-Barré syndrome?" so it seems it must present in different ways for different people

I am happy you made a recovery. Tragically, my father did not survive GBS. He passed away on the third day of being diagnosed with GBS. He was paralysed from neck down and he was on ventilator. The ventilator was extremely uncomfortable and painful for him. I just keep overthinking about how much in pain he was and what was going through his mind.

Did she get the job vaccine or the flu vaccine for college or foreign travel? Guillaume barre is one of the adverse reactions listed on vaccines.

I was diagnosed with GBS in March last year (2023). It's now almost May 2024 and I am still on the road to recovery. But I am hopeful I will one day be fully recovered! ❤