Areas of Inflammation in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Dr. Gary Vilke discusses the areas of inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis as well as kyphosis. 3D animation contained. For more information on ankylosing spondylitis and related diseases, visit us at: http://www.spondylitis.org

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Education

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• ankylosing
• spondylitis
• inflammation
• spondyloarthritis

[hellbreakingkid]

I have severe AS and affects all areas except my eyes. Iam on lots of medication and keep extremely active i love playing sports and have been doing professional wrestling for three years now. This high impact sport is the only thing stopping my spine from curving even though it hurts like hell but i love the sport. Im only 23 but was diagnosed at the age of 14. Im starting to get scared after seeing the long term affects on mick mars from motley crue and the damage i have caused myself. But yo

[aks37403]

there's not more painful disease than as. sometimes you can't even sleep at nights 

[Kilpoola]

@Kilpoola And try not to be too hard on those of us that give up fighting for fitness. Sometimes just surviving becomes enough. Used to do sports but gave everything up 5 years ago. Sometimes, exercise does become impossible for some of us. We are all at different battle stations!

[Kilpoola]

Just started month 3 of Low Dose Naltrexone, along with suppository Diclophenac and huge amounts of dietary supplements. My Rhumy doc and an endocrenologist are really working together on this. I am 50 years old, had my first surgery of 9 at 26 and this is the best I've felt for years, much better than Humera and TNFblocker therapy ever could. Give it a try, but be patient. The pain is forever but managable.

[ajonz9213]

i would like to invite you to check out a new site that i set up to network people with AS and to share wisdom, treatments and encouragement!

Please come check out the website! im hoping to make a large network and bring us together to understand this disease!

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Andrew J

[sybaris1]

@urusol no mate I went straight onto humera sorry, hope you find some relief and some info :).

[urusol]

had you try with "low dose naltrexone " ?

I will start this month , best wishes for all !!!

[urusol]

do you know "lowdosenaltrexone"??

[sybaris1]

@MsMagicalCat What do you do make stupid comments abuse people make out there is only you in the world that has this disease and also you happen to have it worse than anyone else, then delete it?

I get abusive replys and then you have taken them off, well you really are a piece of work and I hope its as bad as you make out you deserve it :0 Have a crap day and be in lots of pain I'm not I take my medication in fact I injected myself today and thats it for 2 whole weeks.

[sybaris1]

@MsMagicalCat I see you seem to believe you have it worse than anyone else in the world. Bah you make me sick.