Spondylitis pain started in the thoracic are when I was in my early 20s. I think my GP was on the ball but I didn't know what he was looking for. He did ESR at that time and all was well. I was getting rare IBS symptoms then too. Doc concluded I had fibromyalgia.
I have always been a big vegetable and meat eater out of instinct due to the discomfort I felt by age 35 when I ate starchy foods. I had no idea why I felt bad.
All those years I believed the fatigue and discomfort was FM.
Over 20 years later (age 47) pain and inflammation finally got to the neck and lower spine. CRP and ESR were still fine but before those tests I was already on a LSD
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I too have wondered if I went off the LSD/NSD for a few weeks and then saw the rheumatologist what the CRP/ESR would be like but I am too afraid because when the inflammation goes up the damage accumulates and doesn't seem to heal.
Right now I am doing the three day apple fast but I feel horrible: lower back is fine but the neck and head is a different story.
That's a question I want to post, "anyone have chronic inflammation in the mucous membranes of the head, tightness and pain in the temples, pain behind the eyes, and a lot of pain, crunching and inflammation at the base of the skull?" I developed those head symptoms after a scuba accident in 2013 in which I got sea water in my head and then the full blooming of AS symptoms developed over a period of two years with the help of heavy NSAID use futilely attempting to kill the skull. pain.
I'm ending the fast with a pot of beef bone broth soup!
