Hi Deborah
I agree totally with Bilko about the exercise. Since I have been doing 2 hours a week of exercise in the gymn and pool directly aimed at AS sufferers and supervised by a physio I have become more limber (or, more aptly, less stiff) than I have been for years, even before diagnosis. I average about an hour a day with swimming and my daily exercises and they help. But it is the special exercises directed by the physio, to move parts I had never exercised before in my life, which I think has made the major difference.
Maybe with more of the right exercise you wouldn't need all the other drugs.
Wally
