Re: [RISG-INFO/SUPP] Happy New Year

[Guest guest]

I'm back in town! I hope everyone has had a Happy New Year celebration

and that everyone will have a happy new year regardless of your

symptoms, pain, or disease. Ray

[Guest guest]

Hi Ray,

I hope 1999 will be very good to you and your family.

I am really intrested in the Ankylosing S. Is this another list that you

are involved in?

I would appreciate it, if you could give me some information about it.

Thanks,

Lois

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> I'm back in town! I hope everyone has had a Happy New Year celebration

> and that everyone will have a happy new year regardless of your

> symptoms, pain, or disease. Ray

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[Guest guest]

LL, for information on Reiters Syndrome, Ankylosing Spondylitis,

Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome (IBS, aka Chron's Disease), or Psoriatic

Arthritis go to this web-site and sign-up. I am on board of trustees of

this group and will vouch for its usually good information (of course,

you can't control everyone's input). The archives and library sites

have tremendous amounts of information for anyone suffering from one of

these Spondylitis diseases:

www.risg.org

I have Reiters Syndrome diagnosed at age 25 some 24 years ago, but had

symptoms since childhood. They now diagnose such children as having

Juvenile Spondylitis as opposed to Juvenile Arthritis because the

syndrome of symptoms is so different from arthritis. Of course, I was a

child 40 years ago when I developed first symptoms at age 9 according to

my mother, but docs then called it " growing pains " or " psychiatric

problems. " My mom is now dying from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

another one of the auto-immune diseases. She went for five years with

her doctor telling her it was all in her mind before he let her go to

pulmonologist and have a biopsy of her lungs. That was a year ago and

they now give her less than six months to live from her supposedly

" Psychiatric " problem. The auto-immune diseases like IPF, RA, RS, AK,

PA, and IBS, etc., are often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.

Visit the RISG site and you can learn a lot about AK (Ankylosing

Spondylitis), etc.

Ray in Virginia