If you can get joint replacement, do it. My friends that hesitated all say that they should have do it sooner!

I could hardly walk, then I found a rheumatologist that started treating me with Embrel. I also have had joint replacement. Now I get Rituxan infusions every six months. I walk 1-2 miles a day. I will do whatever it takes!

In my experience, you will need a wheelchair starting about age 70. By age 80 you will wish you had never been born.

Having had undiagnosed AS all my life, diagnosed at 44 now 65 and having managed the condition mostly on my own,
I have been using a stick increasingly over the last 18 months. I am now hiring a wheelchair but really hate the idea of it. It makes me tearful after years of stubbornness. How have others coped mentally with this? 💗

No I don't think so, I believe exercising regularly and doing your stretches everyday will make a huge difference to and AS sufferers mobility in later life.