My Name is AS and 4 Reasons to Start Treating your AS

Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. Today is going to be kind of a unique episode. I'm going to do a couple of things, but they are tied together. First and foremost, I'm going to read an item that I found online called, “Hello, my name is Ankylosing Spondylitis.” From there, I'm going to review an article that talks about four reasons that you should be treating your Ankylosing Spondylitis. So these tie together because one paints a very, very bleak picture of what we deal with and what you may deal with it sometime in the future. Again, this is not set in stone medical advice. It's strictly just readings and opinions. So make sure if you have any concerns or Questions about anything that we discussed today that you go ahead and talk to your doctor. And then lastly, I'll consult an article from healthline.com about four reasons you should treat your Ankylosing Spondylitis. So I hope you guys enjoy the two pieces put together and I think Kylie Frost from Kylie's race to beat Ankylosing Spondylitis Facebook page for the information. Last, but not least, a housekeeping item. I want you to know that Patreon page is up and available. If anybody should feel inclined to become patreons of this podcast, it's greatly appreciated. Secondly, if you go to the spondypodcast.com page, on the right hand side you can access The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast t-shirts, sweatshirts, there's men's women's versions of shirts in there. So I hope to see everybody ordering. I've gotten some feedback from folks that have ordered so far and they like what they see. Everything will be on order until I believe the end of February and then the items will be printed. And you'll be contacted about shipping dates and shipping costs for the items at that point. So anyway, take care and enjoy. The other night I was going through Instagram and I came across this post. And it was a discussion or writing about ankle closing spondylitis. I read it and I thought that is exactly my existence with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Now, I know many of you have different outcomes again, because this disease affects us all differently and I see many of you that are not all but many of you that are younger and haven't had quite fusing yet that you end up with a different experience to how you deal and the ways you can deal with Ankylosing Spondylitis.

I wanted to read this and but I hope anybody that wants to discuss it will email me at Jayson.Sacco@gmail.com. It's on the web page. For spondypodcast.com and Jayson is spelled j a y so n dot s a c c o @ gmail.com. I did find this on a Facebook page that was called Kylie's Race to Beat Ankylosing Spondylitis. She is in New Zealand and is working to run marathons in spite of her Ankylosing Spondylitis. So I cheer on, I congratulate her and I hope that you all head over there and like her page.

So let's go ahead and I want to read this and it's a little lengthy, but here we go. Hello, my name is Ankylosing Spondylitis. I am your monster in the dark. I only can be seen once I have destroyed you completely and it's all too late. I'll make you tired. I will make you weak. I will create a complete pain throughout you that you cannot withstand. I am the cruelest of cruel. Your hands will cramp and creak your back will be unfair. The pain will be so intense it will drop you to your knees. It will be so sharp at times like a knife being stabbed into you over and over again. I get great joy and destroying all that's good in your life and no one but you can see and feel the monster I am and what I am doing to you hidden from their eyes. Out of the master of all this and the master of you, your hips. I will take them in pain so severe you will cry begging God to help you and your life a belt you will tie around your leg just so you can lift it to move it in the mornings as I take your hips away permanently. Your neck, my goodness, your neck. Well this will become a test