KateP1963, I'm so very sorry to hear how much you must be suffering and that you often don't get the answers you need... I hope it's ok if I share that there are people out there who are reversing auto-immune diseases. Yes, reversing them, completely... You won't hear it in the mainstream medical system because they don't teach *anything* about food and diet in medical school, and NO ONE makes money when people are well and healing themselves with food. But if you're up for it (I can't imagine how you feel day to day), do a bit of research and you will find functional medicine doctors, holistic health practitioners, and chiropractor type people who HAVE helped people reverse these conditions. It takes a lot of will power and a *very healthy* diet, but basically flooding the body with the right foods and nutrients can and does help people improve. I wish you all the very best.