Hi Angie

Welcome to KickAS
Glad you found this site. This site has the best people you could ever hope to meet. Hope you stay around.

I am a 49 yrs old male and started having "flare-ups" about ten years ago ( I could hardly walk and the pain was extreme-I was told it was probably bulged discs that was causing the pain). They would last about a week and then subside with the help of meth-prednisone packs,epidurals and/or pain meds. NSAIDs really did nothing for me through those years. 2 years ago on Labor Day I had another flare up that even Vicadin did not touch. After a couple of days the initial flare went away and I was left with chronic pain in my hips that has now progressed to my back and every other major joint in my body. I was finally diagnosed November 08'.

The nice thing about coming here is that people DO know what you are talking about.

Hope to see you here again soon!!

I can not defeat you but I will not let you win

Jeff

Degenrative disc disease 2005
AS 2008 HLA-B27-
Fibromyalgia 2010
Disability 2012
Back to work part time 2013
Enbrel, Cymbalta,Oxycodone, blah blah blah blah