Table 4. Cases in which patient delay formed over 50% of the total delay period.

Cases
Crohn’s Disease
P01	Diffuse, intermittent symptoms, normalised over ten years until an acute flare in conjunction with an important life event forced her into help-seeking.
P11	Older person whose childhood symptoms were misdiagnosed, and whose diagnostic labels ‘stuck’.
P10, P18	Symptoms arose later in life and attributed to menstrual / menopausal activity.
Ulcerative colitis
P02, P03, P17	Slowly escalating symptoms normalised, until symptoms became intolerable.
P06	Diagnosed with uveitis by ophthalmologist, but no investigations for systemic disease.