Articles

I’ve been using mobility aids for about 4 years now. The thing is, it wasn’t until more recently that I started to use them in public as needed. I think...

Ableism: Discrimination [whether purposeful or not] in favor of able-bodied people. This article is for people who love someone with a chronic illness, for people who are just learning about...

“While writing about my health issues has not cured them, it has helped me develop better coping skills and even contributed to better management of my symptoms (and I could...

I did not react well to Cimzia. It did not help me. I ended up in the ER after three months of feeling unwell, a month-long headache, and a weeklong...

Mine is a common story. My lower back symptoms began when I was a teenager but I wasn’t diagnosed with axial spondyloarthritis or even referred to a rheumatologist until a...

The door opens and the first thing I noticed is the air on my skin. Crisp and dry, it is cold inside. Then, the smells are noticed next. It varies...

Like so many of us, receiving a diagnosis took some time for me as well. When I was about eleven or twelve years old I started getting pain in my...

Ten years ago, I became a mom. Three years into those ten, my oldest son was diagnosed with autism. It was not a shocking diagnosis, but it was a life-changing...

As a duo of a Life Coach (Julie) and a Health Coach (Lana), we have decided to write a series of articles together. We want to share our stories with...

Struggling with inflammatory arthritis, I have days where I feel okay and days I don’t. It’s important to tune in to my body and its energy level daily to take...

Before I get into the details of my trip, I just want to say I went on this reset trip back in November, when the virus wasn’t spreading as bad...

I received my vaccine on a Wednesday, and by the evening, I was already feeling sick. I had a headache, fever, and hot and cold sweats. Overall, I felt weak...

One of the things that we talk about the least when it comes to ankylosing spondylitis is the sheer mental exhaustion. Obviously, fatigue is all-encompassing, which means it takes over...

Auldyn and Keegan are no strangers to the difficulties of traveling with ankylosing spondylitis. Traveling can get even more complicated when you're with extended family members who may not understand...

Sometimes I feel like the number of ways AxSpA can affect my body are endless. It’s extremely discouraging. But as a systemic disease, the truth of the matter is that...

A lifelong people-pleaser, I've always tended to be polite and agreeable in an effort to make others comfortable. When a problem arises, my instinct is to figure things out for...

Sitting with injection needles, alcohol cleansing wipes, and cute band-aids… Taking deep breaths and hyping yourself up to prick your skin and let your medication infiltrate your body… Dumping the...

My husband, Keegan, walked with a limp for a long time before he was diagnosed with AxSpa. I remember one night he dragged his leg from where our car was...

Recently, we featured a giveaway promotion of a cane in our weekly newsletter. One of our members brought to our attention that the subject line of our newsletter using a...

When 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 for everyone. For example, one girl I met...