Tips To Improve Your Sleep...Sleep is fundamental to help regulate the immune system and live a vibrant and energetic life. We need sleep for restoration, repair...reactionscomments
Ankylosing Spondylitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease...Hi all, I have had AS for 25 years. For just over a year now I have had relatively high lower abdominal...reactions14replies
Four Ways to Destress in Stressful Times...Since the beginning of the pandemic it seems like increased stress levels have become the new normal. Stress can be a risk...reactions2comments
My Experience with the COVID-19 Vaccine...I will be the first to admit that when the Covid vaccine first became available, I was weary of it. As a...reactions2comments
5 Tips for Starting a Self-Injection Biologic...My husband, Keegan, has perfected the art of the biologic. I remember the first time he took it. He was so psyched...reactions4comments
How My Daily Life Has Changed ...I would consider myself a hard-working person. I started babysitting when I was 15. I had my first part time job at...reactions3comments
3 Tips For Mental Health After Diagnosis...I knew — in some intuitive way — that I had ankylosing spondylitis (AS), or something similar about a decade before I...reactions1comment
Strengthening the Core Without Causing a Flare: Part One...Editor's note: Be sure to speak with your doctor before trying a new exercise program. Building a strong core can be difficult...reactions2comments
How Doctors Dismiss Overweight Patients...If you go to the doctor for a health issue or concern, or because you are in pain, you would expect a...reactionscomments
Amplifying Black Voices: How Healthcare Providers Can Better Serve the Community...For our Amplifying Black Voices series, we are exploring how bias in healthcare affects the quality of life for Black people living...reactionscomments
Fatigue-Busting Tips for Ankylosing Spondylitis...When I'm in the throes of an ankylosing spondylitis (AS) flare-up, the fatigue is through the roof. We're talking about getting up...reactions5comments
Rethinking Arthritis Fatigue...My sister Danica* has a next-level guest room. If she ever decided to quit working in [redacted] Danica would conquer the hospitality...reactionscomments
What's in your AxSpA flare toolkit? Share a photo with the community!...Everyone copes with AxSpA and symptom flare-ups different. Do you have a cozy cave, or place in your home where you go...reactions12repliesCopingFlare Management
The Question that Keeps Me Up at Night...There's a question that keeps me up at night. Could my husband, Keegan, be suffering from more than just AS? What if...reactions5comments
Coming Back Home to Myself...I am making more space for things that are good for me. I am temporarily separating myself from the ideology of productivity...reactions1comment
I Miss Having a Choice...Every morning I wake up immediately feeling the fire behind my eyes and think to myself, “Time to do the same thing...reactions3comments
7 Items That Help with my AxSpA...With a chronic illness that is largely out of my control, I rely on certain items to give me a sense of...reactions1comment
My One Year Painiversary...As my one-year painiversary is coming up, I thought writing an article about this topic was important. My last pain-free day was...reactions1comment
The Therapeutic Effects of Sharing Your AxSpA Story...When I was first diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of axial spondyloarthritis, I wasn’t sure how to talk about my experience...reactions1comment
My Symptoms May Be Invisible, But I am Not...A lot of my symptoms are very much invisible. When I was first diagnosed, I felt like I was invisible. Within the...reactionscomments
