Yeah, what bring out spondylitis is usually by getting injured.

I don't know how doing it but my hats off to you please hope got really good doctor for all of this

I was thrown from my van, someone ran a red light I was leaving where I worked has a CNA in a nursing home it was 2001 she hit me and I have no memory only what people sitting at the other lights told me but I woke up in the highway and I thought I had to little kids when I really had 4 2 almost grown and two todllers! I have been in horrible pain since that happen. Drs wouldn't let me go back to work but after a year I had to because I was a single mother. I thank God everyday he saved me that day and brought back my memory of my children. I do have horrible memory problems problems now and take namenda for it but I really don't know if it helps. I worked has a CNA up until Jan 2019 when I couldn't work any longer and come to find out I have this and it's destroyed my joints my hand hurt so bad, my spine Lord its bad and I've tried everything guys now I'm hoping surgeries will fix some of the damage. Going start with my neck and work down I guess so I need prayers we all do so know I'm praying and thinking good thoughts for you all. Oh has it efected anyones eyes it has mine I'm going to have to go see a eye Dr because my eyes get sharp pains in them and I can see well everything is so blurry.

I fell when I was in my early 20's off a ladder and injured my tailbone and neck. My rheumatologist at that time told me I had a Disc Degenerative Joint Disease in which he told it was going to get worser as I got older. I am in my early 50's now. In which I was diagnosed with Spondylitis.

Sounds like you need a new doctor. I learned I had it when I was 24 and they found it by a simple xray.