Is GBS helped by routine IVIG treatments?

I was diagnosed with GBS in 10/05. After spending a week in the hospital getting worse daily until I couldn’t use my arms or legs, my face was paralyzed and my torso was numb, the doctor FINALLY started IVIG after knowing what was wrong with me 5 days earlier. Within a couple of days of treatment ( I had the 5-day IVIG in two days), I started to get better. I had one sudden relapse three months later and got more IVIG and got better again. 10 months later, I started to slowly deterioating. Six months later and a new neurologist ( thanks Gene!!!), I started a four month IVIG treatment. I felt great after the treatments and even had one day where I was active for 8 hours and had a couple of mornings where I had no pain and forgot, for a few hours, that I was sick!! Well, this is my first month off the treatments and I have more nerve burning and muscle spasm pain. I am thinking of calling my doc for another treatment as I am going on a trip in three weeks and want to be as fit as a GBS’r can be.

MY QUESTION: Since my symptoms initially came on within a week fast and furious, I was diagnosed with GBS, but theI VIG treaments have helped me to feel better. S does this mean that I have CIDP or that someone can first have GBS which can turn into CIDP? I am really scared about never getting any better than I am and at my current level, I only work p/time out of my house. I do need to be able to work full-time to save for my son’s college in three years and since I was home schooling my son and had only been working p/time for 2 years before I got sick, I don’t qualify for disability. It stinks when y ou have your life planned out and can’t follow through.

Thanks.

Laura