Hello, and I believe as you do. there is a connection in all the auto immune diseases. I have multipal. Had a bad bad virus at 29 years old and while on the er table i felt a tingle all over and on my hair as well. In six weeks my waste lenght hair dropped out. since then it has been one after the other. Artritis, bone degeneration, joint degenerations, barretts esphogus, and of course the origional alopecia universalis. I have never been well during these years, and wind up with infections that do not cure easily. I have been to Mayo clinic, and disease specialists, nobody is making that connection. I am positive they are all related. I am now 60 and really sick with barretts esphophagus, can't control the acid in my stomach and the cells are turning up abnormal. Cervial troubles ended with bad cells too in which my hysterectomy took place. All in all I hope to find people here to with multipal problems in their bodies. I wish you all the best and I hope a thread can be started for multipal auto immune conditions. I also pray for this site. do write any time. I am changing services, but I will be back around. ginnie