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Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis last year and it really destroyed my world. I was 21 and training to be a professional dancer so it felt like everything I'd been working towards was gone.

The past year I've worked really hard to get my illness under control with medication and lifestyle changes. I'm back dancing and training to achieve my dream. The plan was to try a biologic injection but recent imaging has shown that I don't have active inflammation anymore and my… read more

As in little league baseball. The nerve associated with being hit with force sends pain signal soaring to brain even though never being hit.
the neighbors knocking on the door - as you scream going downstairs. Happens to me every so often. Freezing Cold packs help.. Understanding AS, the entire pelvic area gets compromised..

I have axial spondylitis and bulging discs

i also have several la bulging disks and degenerative disc disease ( basically all but three disks have some sort of problem)and constantly juggling which tendon makes me want to cry from pain. exercise is not an option until i can get pain under control i am already taking coesentrix monthly and tons of supplements and muscle relaxers daily and hydrocodone daily(1 pill). what meds are folks taking?

I have all the symptoms of spondylitis - chronic back pain that improves with movement/exercise but worsens with rest, regular flares, peripheral joint pain, and myofascial pain. It all kicked off with chronic low back pain and a diagnosis of chronic sacroiliitis when I was 27. I'm 51 now, and still no diagnosis, in spite of having chronic pain off and on for all these years, which has gotten markedly worse since I reached menopause. I'm being gaslit by doctors who are gobsmacked that I'm asking… read more

I've dealt with lower back pain since 2019, & never heard of AS before. Thought I over did it with projects and lifting too much, but the pain is still here in 2024. I have or had plantar facitis, sciatica, bone marrow edema, herniated discs, spinal stenosis, bone spurs (all noted on MRI) 2 colonoscopy's, diverticulitis, endoscopy, gall bladder removed, 3 sets of trigger shots, SI joint Injections, IBS and I am positive for HLA-B27. I was recently diagnosed with AS. (Finally! - not that I ever… read more

Symptom

The article mentions that one of the symptoms is sometimes psoriasis, in addition to other common psoriatic arthritis symptoms such as heel pain and IBD etc. Wouldn't the correct diagnosis then be Psoriatic Spondylitis? Whats the difference when there is no evident fusion? Do treatments between the two differ?