I was recently diagnosed with AS, but have probably had it since I was a teenager. I am now 35 years old. I am in a lot of pain and have started a fast to try to kick this disease into remission. I have been following the no starch diet for the past week. Has anyone had good success with fasting. I am only drinking water right now and plan to do the fast for three days. I have all of the usual AS pain... one of the hardest to manage is my achilles tendon and heal pain. Most of the time I just want to be on crutches because it hurts so bad.


DX: AS- HLA-B27 positive