Preparing For a New School Year With AxSpaLiving with a chronic illness and being a mother doesn’t come easy. I am learning new ways every day to make it...reactions5comments
Take the Managing Treatment and Medication SurveyThe Managing Treatment and Medication Survey is now closed. Thank you for your interest! Treatment is a big part of managing a...reactionscomments
Chronic Illness: A Life Sentence or A Lifeline?A chronic illness diagnosis can be a very confusing and terrifying experience. Being told that I had a medical condition that will...reactions5comments
The Many Doctors Who Manage My Axial SpondyloarthritisOne question I get often is "who treats axial spondyloarthritis?" Typically, this question arises from individuals with some of the symptoms of...reactions11comments
Alcohol and AS: What I've RealizedLast year I wrote a few articles about how I cut alcohol out entirely for a few months and how it affected...reactions11comments
A Look At The Mythology of the SpineI read an interesting bit of mythology around the spine the other day, as I delved into one of my many "Wikipedia...reactions2comments
How's Your Pandemic FOMO?The epic film Love Actually tells us that Christmas is an enchanted time for magical moments and taking stock of our lives...reactions2comments
How Fundraising Helped MeLuckily, I have never suffered with my mental health (touch wood). After my diagnosis, it was the worst I had ever felt...reactions5comments
7 Years in No Diagnosis Land, Part 2In part 1 of No Diagnosis Land, I told you how I started to have symptoms in different parts of my body...reactions7comments
Keeping Busy During a Flare-UpI think I speak for everyone when I say AS flare-ups are the bain of our existence. There is no worse feeling...reactions10comments
My Experience With BiologicsI have been using biologics for 14 years now. Never really getting used to injecting myself. Not because it’s painful but, in...reactions9comments
Things I No Longer Do With AxSpaIt has been almost two years since my axial spondyloarthritis diagnosis and this year has brought about many new and scary treatments...reactions3comments
I Tried Tai Chi and Qi Gong For Ankylosing SpondylitisI'm always looking for ways to deepen communication with my body, increase my mobility, and quiet my mind. Enter Tai chi and...reactions5comments
What Does Dynamic Disability Mean to Me?We’ve all heard of the word disability, but what is a dynamic disability? A dynamic disability is a disability that fluctuates in...reactions11comments
My Cup Runneth EmptyYou know that saying, "you can't pour from an empty cup"? Well, no one told me when I was diagnosed that ankylosing...reactions2comments
The Inconsistency of My Illness Causes Me FearWhen it comes to chronic illness, no two days are the same. The inconsistency and unpredictability that come with a chronic illness is what gets...reactions4comments
Self-Care: I Set Small Goals & Limit My ActivitiesWhether you realise it or not, you are dealing with everyday struggles and an unpredictability that comes with having AS. Pulling yourself out of bed, exercising, making your dinner or...reactions9comments
We Need To Talk About Mental HealthI recently ran a Twitter poll asking members of the chronic illness community to vote on the topics that were most compelling...reactions2comments
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Axial SpondyloarthritisAfter my diagnosis of AxSpa, and once I was already taking Humira (one of the biologics), I experienced some gastrointestinal (GI) issues...reactions2comments
Rumble, Old Man, Rumble!A story of a boxing match that helped me learn to manage my AxSpA flares. October 1974. I am 16 years old...reactions3comments
