Study Shows Possibility Of Immune Problems in Women With PTSD

I absolutely hate it when someone tells me I can't do something, especially if there reason is because I'm a woman. I recognize that I can't carry a 180 pound man a 100 yards over my shoulder, but not all men can do that either. However, I ran across an article that suggest biological differences between Men and Women could explain how their body handles the affects of PTSD. I knew the body has its own memory, and in my case it's the bodies memory that brings up the repressed memories in my brain. But how can being a women with PTSD affect my immune system?

This article PTSD Invokes Sex Different Immunities was published back in April of 2011 and it basically discusses a small trial where immune systems of PTSD men and women where compared. The men showed no noticeable difference but the women showed a significant difference. I find this especially interesting because a couple years after my PTSD was diagnosed I was also diagnosed with Graves Disease which is a disease where my immune system attacks and tries to kill my thyroid. I've also developed several allergies I've never had before this past year. Since allergies are an immune response could they have been triggered by my PTSD too?

The number of men and women in the trial weren't enough to make this anything more than a suggestion, however I personally think this theory has some weight to it. So this leads me to wonder, if I get my PTSD under control, will my Graves Disease go into remission? I think it's possible, because when I was doing well, the disease was almost in remission. Then 2011 happened, The Year Of The Devil and my Graves as spiraled out of control. I guess only time will tell.