Hiya,

I've not been on Kickas much of late, trying to manage things down as much as I can.

I've been a lot better over the past 6 months but ended up with some pretty severe flares, which have forced me to Accident and Emergency 4 times now in 8 months. The tachhycardy stuff has been enough to get me admitted let alone the other problems.

The local hospital have upgraded me to (these lines were dictated to me parrot fashion) "severe systemic auto immune disease, so far i have been diagnosed with ......."

The senior guy that runs the acute care area just off A&E turns about to one one of the best gastro's in the state and his words are "if I had n't seen in myself I would n't have believed it"..."Your neck looks like you have been in a serious car crash...."

So I'm off to see him next week at his private practise.

The other Dr.s and the nurses have quietly warned me that they have been treating me for toxic colon the previous flares.

I've got to the point where I doubt very much that anything significant will occur to help me and just concentrate on managing things down, but I guess I would n't have gotten to this stage where I just dealing with abrupt flares without the help and support from KickAS.

thnaks

Dave