Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Thanks for the explanation. Sorry, I had understood Ankylosing Spondylitis to be AS, but I guess it has more than one abbreviation.

Hopefully you will be able to gain back some function and lower pain levels.

Violet

Woops, that's my gabapentin brain acting up again. Too many abbreviations and crossover conditions. I have the memory and cognition of an 80 year old!

Well, I'm not even on gabapentin but often I feel like I have the brain of an 80 year old!

Violet

I considered Ankylosing Spondylitis as a possible condition for myself, because I always found it weird that my entire spine would ache but no other bones in my body do. I can go for a 1 or 2 hour walk and my knees and ankles won't feel the slightest bit of soreness or pain, but I have to stop because the pain in my back gets to be too much to bear. At the time, I read there are two blood markers you can test for that might indicate AS. I did one of those blood tests and that one marker I tested for came up negative, so I never really pursued the AS diagnosis after that.

A quick question for cgpsommers or anyone else that has AS: when you lay flat on your back and flat on your stomach do you notice different symptoms? For me, when I lay flat on my back I have a lot of concentrated neuropathy in my lower legs and feet. However, if I lay flat on my stomach the neuropathy in the lower legs/feet almost entirely disappear, but I have more lower back pain. It's like tilting the angle of the pelvis is giving me much different symptoms, and I was wondering if that is congruent with AS.