Hi from New Zealand

[Doug]

Yes, welcome to the forum, Mandy! Your experience is pretty typical, with you being the mystery patient in the hospital until the doctors have a eureka moment, recognize you have an auto-immune disease, and proceed from there. Three weeks isn't the best turn-around on diagnosis, but it isn't that extreme either. It sounds like you are getting the proper treatment. I join Sangye in encouraging you by noting your doctor sounds like a keeper, is doing exactly the right thing in broadening the consultations to specialists who can guide him/her in your treatment. The ones who scare me are doctors who seeM unwilling to bring others into the care of their weggie patients!

[MCC]

Thanks Doug. I am lucky with the doctors, and they were fantastic whilst trying to diagnose me- I was only the 4th person in my doctors 13 years at the hospital who was an apparent mystery. I have three visits to the hospital this week.