Auldyn and Keegan Vlog: Family Trips During a Flare-UpAuldyn and Keegan are no strangers to the difficulties of traveling with ankylosing spondylitis. Traveling can get even more complicated when you're...reactionscomments
Digestive System and Axial SpondyloarthritisSometimes I feel like the number of ways AxSpA can affect my body are endless. It’s extremely discouraging. But as a systemic...reactions15comments
Why I No Longer Put On a Brave Face With My DoctorsA lifelong people-pleaser, I've always tended to be polite and agreeable in an effort to make others comfortable. When a problem arises...reactions5comments
Sharing Intimate Moments: Why We Began Posting Injection VideosSitting with injection needles, alcohol cleansing wipes, and cute band-aids… Taking deep breaths and hyping yourself up to prick your skin and...reactions4comments
Life Before And After FusionMy husband, Keegan, walked with a limp for a long time before he was diagnosed with AxSpa. I remember one night he...reactions2comments
We're SorryRecently, we featured a giveaway promotion of a cane in our weekly newsletter. One of our members brought to our attention that...reactionscomments
Muscle Spasms and Axial SpondyloarthritisWhen you google AS there is a specific number of symptoms and a definition of what you should feel like. This is incorrect; it is different...reactions38comments
Is Unattended Grief Hurting You?The Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross popularized the common understanding that humans process grief and loss in stages in her 1969 book On Death...reactionscomments
A Lesson In Stability and Chronic IllnessI had the most transformative and bizarre and horrible month of March. When Shakespeare's soothsayer warns Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of...reactions1comment
Dreading When the World Goes Back to “Normal”As the pandemic shows signs of finally drawing to a close, people are talking about what life will be like when things...reactionscomments
Interview: How Coaching Could Change The Way You Live With AxSpa (Part 1)As a duo of a Life Coach (Julie) and a Health Coach (Lana), we have decided to write a series of articles...reactionscomments
What Being Dynamically Disabled Means to MeAfter 16 years of living with a dynamic disability, ankylosing spondylitis, I am only just scraping the surface of learning what it...reactions7comments
Believe Chronically Ill People, PeriodAfter the singer Jessie J was recently diagnosed with Ménière’s disease, which is marked by vertigo, dizziness, hearing loss, involuntary eye movement...reactions3comments
What Are Digital Therapeutics?Digital therapeutics (DTx) first entered clinical discussions in the 1990s. The idea was that technology could improve healthcare access. It could help...reactionscomments
What Are Digital Therapeutics?Digital therapeutics (DTx) first entered clinical discussions in the 1990s. The idea was that technology could improve healthcare access. It could help...reactionscomments
Strengthening Your Core Without Causing a Flare: Part TwoLearn the basics in Strengthening Your Core: Part 1 here! In part one, I focused on what makes up the core, and...reactions1comment
My New Coping Strategy: Earn My PainI have developed a new coping strategy over the past few months. I am going to earn my pain. At first glance...reactions2comments
Moving With Axial SpondyloarthritisMy family and I purchased a home this winter, and while a part of me was extremely excited and anxious to make...reactions1comment
Surreal Pain DreamsThroughout the past year, I have noticed that even in the deepest slumber, my ankylosing spondylitis pain can control me. Often, the...reactions16comments
Famous People With Axial SpondyloarthritisI am reading an excellent biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chenow, and I am enjoying it. I have completed about...reactions3comments
