I Have Ankylosing Spondylitis

I, Ajay Kumar, am suffering from Ankylosing Spondylitis. Many years passed. Consulted many Doctors but still in too much problems of pain on movement. Kindly intimate for getting free from this or at least to get easy on movement.

Hi! Kaylee again. From the previous story I mentioned my boyfriend being diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis. I've never imagined hearing this from the man I love the most.. I feel so bad for him and I'm here for him each and every...

I'm not really sure when I developed AS because it could have been as far back as around 12 years old.  We would get the yearly spinal exams at school for Scoliosis and they would always send me for a second opinion. ...

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I am a 20 yr old female that was Diagnosed about 9 months ago with AS. Took almost 3 years and 4 different doctors to be diagnoses. At a point I really thought I was crazy....kinda like a mind over matter situation I was just...

I have AS and have been offered the chance to take anti TNF blockers and was wondering if anyone had any experience of these medications?

I need support from other women who have AS. What pain do you use for your bouts of pain? My GP gave me mussel relaxer and my Rhumetologist gave me non-steroid anti inflammatory to take everyday. The mussel relaxers don't seem to work...

Hi Iam charlin joseph from india age 30yrs old. AS diagnosed only in 2008 and i was in pain for several years but pain will come and go. However in 2008 august the pain was so worse that i could not walk elbow knee neck and hip joints...

Hello. My name is Kaylee and I have a wonderful fiancé who,very sadly, has recently been diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis or short for AS. Throughout his life he has faced multiple surgeries, depression, and now AS. He is by far...

I am a 60 year old male and just officially diagnosed with AS. I was told in the mid-1980's by a radiologist that I had early signs of AS in my sacroiliac joints after having a ct scan.
I have shared that with all my doctors since then...

I am 33 and I was diagnosed about 2 months ago, but my symptoms started when I was a teenager and my docter said that was when I should have been diagnosed.  I have been in severe pain for the last 10 months, but I have medicaid so...

Was told two weeks ago that it is a 99.9% likelihood that I have AS. While one must surrender to the process, I will never surrender to this diagnosis. It is extremely frustrating to have so much pain, but am trying to be a trooper...

pain is the evil monster that lives in my body. some days pain is bigger than me and strangles me with its tentacles. other days i can trick pain by feeding it pills, patches. sometimes i can electrocute it with my stimulator. other...

I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis when I was 21, it has been three years, this is my story.

It first began when I was working in a warehouse job assembling orders. One morning I woke up and the pain in my hip was so bad that...

I am Dave, 59 years old and just diagnosed with AS.

My problems first started when I was 17, my then employer had a medical centre where I received heat treatment on my back.

Throughout my life I have always suffered with lower...

My name is Martin. I'm a combat medic currently serving in the US army. I was diagnose with AS last year while deployed. I have been in pain until this year thank to physical therapy and my medical provider who i am working for. When i...

I am 33 years old and was diagnosed when I was 29.  Went from one week doing spring cleaning in my house to literally not able to walk the next.  Took a few months to be diagnosed.  Was very scary thought it just had...

Here's a comment I posted to another group:
I also have AS. My symptoms first showed up when I was in the military and they couldn't find anything wrong with me right away. Rather than be branded a malingerer or (even worse) delay my...

All of you had very bad days which mean to me ,hospital because no way to any movements at all blocked and for months and months even with Humira .Never lost faith ,for me it was GOD who helped,for other's can be the love of your...

Back in high high school which was about 06 my junior year i missed two months of school. I got a uvitues eye inflammation. My eye doctors couldnt figure out what was going on. The main thing that helped to get the epiosde under control...