Getting Through the Cold Months With AS...As a person living with ankylosing spondylitis, I feel like I'm a human barometer sometimes. The weather is getting colder, and I...reactions6comments
Stages and Progression...Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a type of arthritis that typically starts during the teenage years or young adulthood. Most people start to...
Types of Spondyloarthritis...Spondyloarthritis is a type of arthritis that affects the joints and the areas where ligaments or tendons attach to bone (entheses). There...
Sausage Fingers (Dactylitis) and Axial Spondyloarthritis...Dactylitis is a symptom that can occur with many spondyloarthritis conditions, including axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). It most commonly occurs in people with...
The Verdict in My Low Dose Naltrexone Experiment...It’s been just over two years since I started taking Low Dose Naltrexone to help manage my AS. LDN is a somewhat...reactions17comments
Sex and AS: Position Pain Ratings and Tips for Pain Free Passion...Newsflash - people with chronic illnesses and disabilities enjoy sex too! You wouldn’t think it as a lot of the time we...reactions8comments
What My Body Tells Me Before an Ankylosing Spondylitis Flare-up...Living with ankylosing spondylitis means dealing with flare-ups. I am not symptom free, so the level of symptoms I am used to...reactions12comments
Enthesitis, Heel Pain, and Ankylosing Spondylitis...Did you know that foot pain may be associated with having ankylosing spondylitis (AS)? Yeah, no kidding. Most of us know that AS...reactions30comments
What Being Dynamically Disabled Means to Me...After 16 years of living with a dynamic disability, ankylosing spondylitis, I am only just scraping the surface of learning what it...reactions7comments
Axial Spondyloarthritis Flares: What To Know, How To Cope...If you have axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA), you know how painful a flare can be. What exactly is an AxSpA flare? What can...reactions3comments
Anti-Inflammatory Banana Bread for Spondyloarthritis...I have a habit of buying bananas at the grocery store thinking I'll eat them up by midweek. As the days whisk...reactions5comments
Symptoms of AS Your Doctor Probably Doesn’t Talk About...Axial spondyloarthritis impacts my life in a lot of different ways. Not all of the symptoms I experience are obvious to others...reactions14comments
Trick Or Treat: How Living With AS Is Like Halloween All Year Round...Halloween is all about things that are scary, and having an incurable condition is as terrifying as it gets. This got me...reactions17comments
My Experiences With Switching Biologics For AS...Over my 5 years of having ankylosing spondylitis, I’ve had to switch biologics twice. I’ve tried Inflectra (Remicade) and Humira, and I’m...reactions4comments
Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle...I am now over 10 weeks into an anti-inflammatory diet to manage my axial spondyloarthritis, and it truly is a lifestyle. On...reactions5comments
Living with AxSpA in the UK...My symptoms first started years ago, but I thought it was just back or disc problems. Then about 5 or 6 years...reactions2comments
Navigating Life Without a Map...Help Please...I was diagnosed in February 2017, and since then, I have been lucky. After Humira and Embrel didn't work, I finally found...reactionscomments
Even the Healer Gets Boils...Hello, I am both a patient and a doctor by profession. Lately, I’ve been hearing the saying "The cobbler’s children go barefoot"...reactionscomments
The Crushing Weight of Fatigue with AS...Of all the ankylosing spondylitis and fibromyalgia symptoms I experience daily, fatigue is one of the worst. For me, coping with ankylosing...reactions19comments
Mental Exhaustion Is A Problem, Too...One of the things that we talk about the least when it comes to ankylosing spondylitis is the sheer mental exhaustion. Obviously...reactions1comment
