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Roz’s father and one of her brothers had ankylosing spondylitis. But even as her pain persisted and spread throughout her body, doctors dismissed the idea that she could have it too.
Hannah Moskowitz’s pain, fever, and fatigue weren’t ‘textbook’ for an AS diagnosis. But she persevered until she and her doctors could figure out what was wrong.
Here’s how to handle these increases in AS disease activity.
From surprising symptoms to misdiagnoses to the toll on quality of life, AS is complex, complicated disease, for patients and their loved ones.
Even with a very strong family history of AS, Reynolds still experienced significant delays in getting diagnosed.
If you have chronic back pain that developed in early adulthood, wakes you up at night, and feels better with movement and worse with rest, listen up.
Many people with AS have the HLA-B27 gene, but most people with the HLA-B27 gene never develop AS.
Ankylosing spondylitis may be portrayed as a ‘man’s disease’ — but it’s anything but to the hundreds of thousands of women living with it, many undiagnosed.
If you have chronic back pain that wakes you up in the second half of the night, it could be a type of inflammatory arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis.
People with ankylosing spondylitis have an elevated risk of DVT and pulmonary embolisms. Here’s how to protect yourself.