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The second one comes from age disease, the first one comes from systemic and genetic disease. I'm not sure but I think you might be lucky to have the one that is age related.
I have to go every 3 months for check up and bloodwork.
Will be switching to Medicare in a few months and in researching my options I'm finding Enbrel will cost me about $5000 more per year than it does on my current health insurance. What have other people done when moving to Medicare?
Amgen works with a program called Saftynet Fondation , if you qualify you pay 0$ for your Embrel… Contact them
Janet, spondylolisthesis is when the vertebrae has slipped forward. Mine is caused from the spondylolysis caused by degenerative disk disease. In my opinion, whatever condition you are diagnosed with… read more
I am a newly diagnosed patient with Spondylosis. My condition is very advanced, considering I'm just 33 years old. I have a plethora of non pain related symptoms all day everyday in Conjunction with my pain and limited mobility. Is this considered an autoimmune disease too?
I know AS is auto-immune as i have had it since I was 20. Spondylosis is not auto-immune.
Is there a difference between Spondylitis Pain and Lumbar Spondylosis???
The hand pain! I have AS. I have intermittent debilitating flare-ups, and days that are tolerable. Recently my hands and shoulders have had so much pain. My neck has hurt nonstop for a few years. It… read more
Ask your doctor about potential medication that will help. You don't have to suffer.
I have the normal pain with spondylitis such as back, hip,shoulder and lately my ribs are painful.
Right now I have been taking Talz, but now they are changing my meds to cosentex because you can only take Talz for a year. I haven’t had as much rib pain like I was. This disease moves around and… read more
Prayers for you and your family and I hope you feel better soon. I hope your surgery went well. I have a lot of the same things wrong with me like you do. I take it one day of time.
My doc tried to get me in a drug trial but the mri didn’t show inflammation and hla b27 was negative so I don’t qualify. Now I’m stressed that this info will make him rethink my diagnosis. I was happy(sort of) to finally having an answer to why I’m in so much pain all the time and get on track to feeling better(sort of). His diagnosis was based on deteriorating of the si joints caught on an X-ray.
I am negative also. My doc said it doesn’t matter that much. I have AS in my neck and si joints/ lower back. All my blood work was also normal. I was misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia and now I was… read more