I want to thank those of you who replied to my post last evening. I appreciate the additional input and can see that there is a variety of symptoms and a variety of ways that doctors diagnose AS/spondy.

I wish the AS monster would get out of all of your faces and leave you alone, but if that can't happen, I wish everyone had a treatment plan that worked for them.

Many thanks to all,

Karen

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Thomas Merton



Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson