How Changing My Diet Sent My AS Into Remission...Editor's note: Please check with trusted doctor, dietician, and/or healthcare provider before beginning any significant dietary changes. In early 2017, dissatisfied with...reactions1comment
Chronic Illness Grief...Grief can occur in many ways, and this can affect one's mental health. I study social care in college. We learn a...reactions6comments
Take the Health and Media Habits Survey!...The Media Habits Survey is now closed. Thank you for your interest! Managing a chronic condition is not easy and can be...reactionscomments
Lifestyle Changes for Ankylosing Spondylitis...We here at AnkylosingSpondylitis.net have connected with people from all different backgrounds, and with all different experiences. Some people who come to...reactions1comment
Breathing Through the Chaos...Since the onset of the pandemic, the flow of daily life has done a 180-degree turn and flipped on its head. Access...reactions4comments
Spring With Ankylosing Spondylitis...Do your joints feel better? Mine do, and today it has nothing to do with medication. I feel better because I see...reactions3comments
Being Chronically Ill During A Pandemic...I'm not surprising anyone by saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse effect on peoples' lives. However, I believe those of...reactionscomments
How My Brain Fog Has Changed Over Time...I’ve now had AS for 5 years. I’ve also had accompanying brain fog for those 5 years. Although I’ve had it the...reactions12comments
Devon Price...Dr. Devon Price was previously an advocate on AxialSpondyloarthritis.net. Dr. Devon Price is a social psychologist, writer, activist, and professor at Loyola...
How I Manage Lower Back Spasms...Walking down the stairs, I suddenly fall to my knees and grasp for the banister. The muscles in my lower back are...reactions21comments
Emotions Are a Part of Having AxSpa...Having AxSpa is no fun at all. I don’t wish it on anyone. It can make you feel so many emotions. It...reactions3comments
Empowering Myself Through Negative Judgements...Recently I made an Instagram reel regarding how abled individuals, or those we surround ourselves with, are so quick to have opinions...reactions3comments
Trouble Falling AS-leep...I have always been a bit of a night owl, but since AS forced its way into my life, it has taken things to...reactions27comments
There Is No Universal AS Experience...One of the things that really helped me understand and move through some of the grief and confusion of my AS diagnosis...reactions4comments
The Mind-Body-Spirit Axis: Holistic Flare Tips...I’ve noticed that my flare ups are 100 times worse when my mind, body, and spirit are not aligned. More pain. More...reactions5comments
Getting Rejected for Disability Aid...At the end of my article "Too Disabled to Employ, Not Disabled Enough to Help", I was about to apply a second...reactions36comments
7 Years in No Diagnosis Land, Part 2...In part 1 of No Diagnosis Land, I told you how I started to have symptoms in different parts of my body...reactions7comments
When the Rain Came...Summer 1999. I am working and earning good money as a self-employed carpenter. The kids are doing well in school and Teresa...reactions4comments
Sal Marx...Sal was previously on an advocate on AxialSpondyloarthritis.net. Marx is an artist who works to illuminate invisible disease experiences and disrupt the...
The Easing of COVID Restrictions and My Fourth Vaccine...As Covid restrictions ease here in Ireland, my anxiety levels are doing the opposite. I understand that we can’t live forever in...reactions3comments
