Hi Pete,
I'm no NSD expert, but I'm the same as you, but have also found that eating red meat causes me to seize up in the mornings, with TBone being the worst.
I guess it points to NSD working for some not all.
The symptoms for AS are so varied. A specialist told me that AS is "atypical": as in not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal
So when you have an inflammatory disease that doesn't conform to a known disease such as arthritis etc, they call it AS!
We could all have our own unique disease with some coincidental symptoms!
James