I'm going down to DEFCON 3 from DEFCON 2. However, when you reply to my post with a response that is not directed to anyone else, what am I to think?
Yes, I made that statement. However, please bear in mind the wording "at all". This was to indicate that if a doctor were to completely and absolutely disregard this symptom/condition and the possibility, depending on other diagnostic factors, that the patient might be suffering form AS, that doctor may want to reconsider.
I don't think I discounted anyone or their symptoms. Not once did I say that stiffness and loss of mobility is not a symptom of early AS. I, too, had stiffness and loss of mobility during the onset of my disease. However, the PT noted the inability of my pelvis to hold it's correction and remain aligned. However, I was not aware that this information may have been useful. It may have been completely irrelevant. However in light of others that remain without a firm diagnosis, whatever their condition/disease may be, it may be helpful in helping them obtain a some sort of diagnosis (not necessarily AS). I don't know if this would have been useful in my case or not. That really doesn't matter now.
Scientifically knowledgeable and intelligent folks like Karen and Sue may be well aware that this information might be useful to the doctor. I, an individual in the "professional" business world at the time, only a few years out of school, and somehow still attempting to cope with major past and present health ailments, relied completely on my doctors. I also completely relied on them to ask the right questions to figure out what was wrong with me. That's why I consulted with them from the get-go.
I never, ever attempted to discredit the validity of anyone's diagnosis. Please don't imply that this is what I was attempting to do.
No harm, no foul.
