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Hi Smyth,
Welcome to Kickas, great site, great people, great advice.... keep coming back and you will agree.
Do not want to burst your bubble... but I think it is the norm still to have the pain/stiffness in the 40's. Doctors think the disease burns itself out, but I think that is a small %.
A lot to learn hear if you take the time and if you do take the time I think you will learn how to better manage AS. Stretching is a key which you seem to have incorporated already.
Best of luck with the Enbrel, many have had success with it.
Take care,
Tim
Hope is only a post away with KickAS.
AS may win some battles, but I will win the war.
KONK - Keep ON Kicking
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Royal_AS_kicker
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Hi,
Concur
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I think the worst part has been that people, including doctors, were beginning to think I was imagining pain. Or had no pain threshold. Because the Doctors could not find anything wrong. I think one of my doctors actually thought I was just trying to get pain meds. Finally got the right doctor. It finally explains the symptoms I have had for years that could not be explained by the doctors.
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Very damaging, and unfortuneately too common......
David
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Journeyman_AS_Kicker
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Welcome Smyth, I suppose being 44 and just getting a DX is a bit tough. Mine came at 42 but I knew there was something up. Just wanted "Them" to fix the back. I do not think there is a period in the game that the pains give up. My pain is a daily occurrence and more bits are crumbling as I type. As Johnny infurred earlier, this is a right pain in the AS. This is the best place for you to get all the info you ever wanted and more. Vast support at every click of the mouse. Each person here knows and feels your pain. Hope the Enbrel is good for you and go and Kick some AS. Doug May Pain Freeness be with you!!
May Pain Freeness be with you!!
First Signs 1992
Sacroilitis DIAG 2001
AS DIAG 2002
Now on:
Celebrex, Tramadol, Nexium, Hydrochlorothiazide, Lipitor, Percocet
Previously on:
Sulfasalizide
Methotrexate (Yuck)
Remicade
Embrel
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