Try - AllClearTravel.com - they specialise in pre-existing conditions.

Your EHIC card will cover you for treatment at a public hospital in Italy but you may find that the nearest public hospital can be as much as a 3 hour drive away and the ambulance service is completely private so you would be hit with a bill for the ambulance unless you have insurance.

Like the rest of Europe free healthcare (Public Hospitals etc. ) are very few and far between as the majority of Europeans have private health insurance and go private all the time.

Cost of insurance policy for someone with your condition for a week should cost no more than £120.00.

Cost of a short ambulance ride to hospital can cost over €300.00.

An assessment at A & E will cost over €1000.00 if you have x-rays.

If you have to be admitted you are looking at €680.00 per DAY for your care, then add the cost of any operations or treatments on top.

A friend of ours went on a walking hoiday to Austria last year and managed to fall over and break their ankle.

Cost of recovery from accident scene to hospital, treatment and hospital stay (2 days) came to over €6000.00.

They had insurance and only had to pay the £50.00 excess.

No brainer really.