I know that if you have read the headline then you might be wondering WOOHH!
But it is true I have seemingly done the impossible.

Now before I go on let me explain that I have been a member of this forum for several years and have been content to look at all the various views that fly back and forth. I didn't feel I had too much to bring to the party until I was sure I had something to give.

I am a 42 year old male living in England and I have had AS for 26 years and counting, yeh since I was 16 years old. I have like many people tried every sane and wacky idea that has been available to me over that time. Like you all I have got worse as the years have rolled on. About 10 years ago my NSAID's became less effective due to gut intolerence and It started to restrict my movement , and as we all know less movement, more stiffness.

For the last 5 years or so I have had my entire lumbar spine fused solid and the fusion is steadily getting higher. I guess until recently it was somewhere between my shoulder blades, YEH that high!

So you know that I am not a nutter or some weird person, I have been chatting to John Merchant over the last 3 years via e-mail, I know that Johns views are well respected on this site. He got me into NSD and anti biotics, They didn't work for me and boy did I try, I gave it a good 7 months and then a further 6 months. I had to break the diet as I was down to 7 stone. I am naturally slim and was 5 foot 9 (now 5 7) and I have never been heavier than 10.5 stone.

During the diet I got only odd days relief here and there and as much as I willed it to work it would not. I even fasted for days at a time.

Bear with me I am getting to the good bit honest. Over a year go I started using a Beck BIOELECTRIFIER, it also has the ability to make colloidal silver. I noticed some slight improvement with this stuff and I was eager to see how far I could push it, as the whole electric medicine stuff was looking very good. It was then I discovered RIFE treatment, type this into GOOGLE and read what comes up.

I bought a RIFE machine in JUNE 03. Let me say that a beck machine and a rife machine are germ/bacteria/virus killers. They use electric and soundwaves. Firget BECK for a moment. The Rife uses sound wave and it appempts to destroy fungi/bacteria by exploding them with a specific sound wave. I know it sounds like Dr Frankenstein but bear with me. I started using the machine to kill candida on 465hz and I knew straight away that I was having success as my dandruff cleared up as did my bad taste in my mouth. I began to feel a little better in myself and this inprovement went on all summer, by now I was off all diets and trying to put weight back on. My holiday snaps look grim as I looked like a bag of bones.

At this point I would like to say that I was very hunched over and my spine was curved to an alarming degree. So much so that I could never lay on the floor as it would be too painful and I would sort of rock up and down, like a rocking horse.

During the summer I gleamed some info about a specific soundwave 326hz that has the ability to destroy calcification. I tried this new number more with hope that an expectation. I was due for a checkup at my RHUMY in OCTOBER and although I thought things were a little better I had not bargined what was to come.

During the visit I had my usual measurements done. You all know the ones, jaw from the wall, fingertips from the floor etc. I went throught the usual stretches and the Doctor wrote down some numbers then looked at me slightly puzzled. I had 1 cm of movement in my lumbar spine measurment and some 100 mm closer to the floor finger tip measurement. He looked very confused as hw had all my numbers going back years and I had't any movement in this area for years.

I told him about the sound wave and he didn't look that interested.

Since then I have gone into overdrive with the RIFE unit and have got the lumbar movement up to 2 cms. This measurement is where somebody puts a mark on your spine at the very bottom and then marks your spine several inches higher. The patient bends over and a measurement is taken in both positions.

To get 2 mcs of movement in an area that has been solid for years ids I think remarkable. I have waited this long to tell you all as I wanted to see if it wasn't a flash in the pan as I would not want to give people false hope.

Last summer I could not lay on the floor because of the curve in my spine now I can lay on the floor and look over my knees with my shouldrs and hips in full contact. I believe that is truly amazing.

Sorry my first letter is so long, if anybody has any questions please feel fee.

Rick