karmicviolence

My wife was diagnosed with GBS in February of this year. Thankfully we caught it relatively early and she was only in the hospital for a few weeks days. It was a scary experience, though!

I hope your wife makes a speedy recovery. Best wishes from Ohio.

Edit: I just talked to my wife about her experience and apparently her hospital stay lasted less than a week. So apparently it was days, not weeks, and I just remembered it wrong. It seemed like weeks! Since someone asked, here is what happened:

She had gone to the urgent care on a Saturday for a bad sinus infection and they sent her home saying it was viral and they couldn't do anything. On the following Wednesday, she still had the sinus infection and she also noticed a tingling feeling in her hands and feet and some muscle weakness. On Friday, she had all of those symptoms + double vision. She went back to the urgent care and they sent her to the Emergency room. In the ER they still didn't know what was going on and just diagnosed her with a severe sinus infection but gave her a referral to a neurologist due to the double vision and sent her home again. When we called the neurologist's office on Monday and described her symptoms, they urged us to come in as soon as possible. Apparently he couldn't believe they let her walk out of the ER. He diagnosed her with GBS and sent her to get checked into a hospital room immediately. Once she was in her room they started her on some sort of plasma drip which lasted a few hours and she had to get a dose of that once a day for five days. As soon as they started the first dose her double vision was improving, and by the second dose it was gone completely. However it took several weeks for all of the feeling to come back in her hands and feet and for the strength to come back to her legs. While we were in the hospital I just remember the sense of urgency from the hospital staff and their amazement that her symptoms weren't worse than they were. Apparently there have been more serious cases that required staying in the hospital for months and not just a few days...

Muscle weakness, tingling in hands/feet and double vision. She had gone to the urgent care on a Saturday for a bad sinus infection and they sent her home saying it was viral and they couldn't do anything. On the following Wednesday, she still had the sinus infection and she also noticed a tingling feeling in her hands and feet. On Friday, she had all of those symptoms + double vision. She went back to the urgent care and they sent her to the Emergency room. In the ER they still didn't know what was going on and just diagnosed her with a severe sinus infection and gave her a referral to a neurologist and sent her home again. When we called the neurologist's office on Monday and described her symptoms, they urged us to come in as soon as possible. Apparently the neurologist couldn't believe they let her walk out of the ER, diagnosed her with GBS and sent her to get checked into a room immediately.