I've often wondered about that question ( what damage i might have caused).
The pain and inflammation in my hips had begun, but no doctor had any answer for that...
it took until 1976 for me to get anyone who had any idea what was wrong; and my original
dx from rheumy #1 was not for AS but Ehler-Danlos because of joint hyper extensivity.
I was huge... 328 lbs...this was a desperate need for me; and there was a red-haired girl involved.
I actually took off 3 days for thanksgiving and a week for christmas/birthday festivities; and,
quite improbably my biggest cravings were for orange juice, lettuce and tomatos, not cake or stuffing.
However,i am one of that one tenth of one percent who lost more than a hundred pounds and in twenty-nine
years didn't gain it all back. My goal btw was 164lbs -half sized; I never made it. Got to 179 and the
red-haired girl went off with my room mate...oh well.
my precipitous health problem over the past two years was an ulcer caused by larger and ever larger
doses of NSAIDs...i'm not just a casual observer. thanks for your concerns...
aloha Ben
