chicken pox and autoimmune diseases

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Just wondering how many of you had chicken pox when growing up?  And if it was a light or severe case?  I heard something really strange from a friend the other day about a link between childhood chicken pox and autoimmune diseases/liver 'weakening'.

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Kriste

I did not have the chicken pox when I was young. I got it when I was around 30 years old and I sure was sick. Still to this day I say I should have been in the hospital. I felt dellerious and I could feel the pox coming out of me. I caught it from my three children and they were nowhere as sick as I was. Who knows if this had an affect on my health. A couple of months prior to this I was in a bad car accident. After these two incidents I was not able to work for about five years and I say that I never fully recovered and now here I am with IC. Kriste