🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,
  I am interested in forming a discussion/support group for people
  who have a condition called DISH -Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal
  Hyperostosis.

  This initial posting is to many groups that may have some relevance,
  so it is short, please e-mail if y'all think this doesn't belong in
  this group.

  DISH involves the symptoms of having your spine weld itself together
  partly by having free-flowing calcium on the anterior portion
  and partly by ossifying (possibly) the anterior spinal ligament.
  Some docs think its viral, some think its like arthritis, others
  think is nutritionally/metabolically based -no treatments or
  cures exist.

  The doctors I've seen say -"Hell the process takes 30 years
  to completely weld the spine together -what are you bitching about!"

  I am mostly bitching about the decreased mobility and the
  high incidence of pain (which the doctors think is all in
  my head).

  At any rate please advise by E-mail  if this is appropriate
  and the next posting (3 weeks) will be to the more appropriate
  groups.

  Thanks
Richard Karasik
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