Welcome Wingartist to the KA family. Sorry you have had to find us but you have come to the right place to find out about AS. Have popped a few links for you to have a look through - there are some 80,300 hits for just one search criteria, broaden the criteria and yet more links will come up. PubMed is good, Webmd, emed, and also the specialist journals. The ist is vast!

Am sure that others will be responding as they come on-line. We are an nternational bunch so there is invariably someone here any time of the day or night. Great if you can't sleep and want a bit of company.

Any questions, ask away - bound to be someone here who can help, who knows, has had to deal with and etc etc. BTW, there is a great search engine here, top right. Feel free to have a good ole moan, vent, share a joke or just pop in to say 'Hi'.

Good to meet you, look forward to meeting you some more.

My spine is pretty fairly crappy but not nearly as bad as others - couple of compression fractues, some fusing, DISH (Forestiere's disease), DDD, osteophytes, kypho/scholiosis, oedema in the bone marrow - inflammation. But doing OK.

Hope you find a good rheumatologist, that is crucial to dealing with the beast of many names - AS!

Take care -

Molly C (ex-patBrit France)
Keeping on Keeping on

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Symptomatic spinal stenosis associated with ankylosing ...
Symptomatic spinal stenosis associated with ankylosing spondylitis. Luken MG 3rd , Patel DV, Ellman MH. Patients with ankylosing spondylitis frequently ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7155336 -

PDF] Ankylosing spondylitis complicated by pseudoarthro...
Ankylosing Spondylitis. Complicated by. Pseudoarthrosis and Secondary. Spinal Stenosis. Kenneth M. Vitellas, M.D., Joseph S. Yu, M.D., and Mary Oehler, M.D. ...
www.springerlink.com/index/P061L51H1747G174.pdf

Spinal Stenosis Causes, Symptoms, Treatments, Diagnosis
Causes of Lower Back Pain, Herniated Disc, Related Guide: Osteoarthritis, Spinal Stenosis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, What Are the Risk Factors for Back Pain? ...www.webmd.com/back-pain/guide/spinal-stenosis

Spinal Stenosis Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment on ...
Learn about spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal. ... Topics Related to Spinal Stenosis. Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatologic Perspective ...
www.emedicinehealth.com/spinal_stenosis/article_em.htm - Similar

Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease - Ankylosing Spondylitis ...
27 Jan 2011 ... Ankylosing spondylitis disease is a type of spinal arthritis where ... Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spaces in and around the spine. ...
www.healthtree.com/articles/spinal-problems/arthritis...

MollyC1i - Riding OutAS