Hi Deborah
Thankyou for your suggestions for a survey questionnaire.
I'm glad that someone basically agrees with my suggestion. Along with Kickas members there are also people with AS who are not diet sensitive. There are those in both groups who pour scorn on the other.
On Monday night I had dinner with 8 other AS sufferers, all of whom had been diagnosed many years before me, and I was the only one who believed in diet as a factor in AS. I have not spent any time researching medical studies into the effect of diet on AS so I could not argue when I was berated with tales of such studies which could not establish any link. Of course if this is true it would fit the 'two sub-group' model which I suggested. Along with those hostile to my position were moderates who accepted that I was different to them but were convinced that diet was not a factor in their own AS.
My own condition varies from day to day depending on what I eat and the connection is fairly obvious. However I accept that for some the link may be more subtle.
Regardless of who is right, it still appears useful to have a survey.
Wally
