question: Dr Grief thanks in advance for your time.What exactly is myasthenia gravis. When I look it up I get a lot of different diseases. Is this the blanket name for any kind of autoimmune problems? I have gone to a neurologist, and he has done a blood test but won t get the results for two weeks and I really wanted to know what I can expect. The joints in my ankles, right knee, left wrist are hurting and my right eyes wants to close sporadically. When I was a young adult I had seizures. I have to take a blood thinner because I have a blood disorder that makes my blood too thick, I have had (5) heart attacks. My mother died from this disorder, in the end they said it was a type of bone cancer(acute leukemia).