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Tuesday night was a pretty rough flare. Even after taking almost double the amount of Morphine! I was awake all night racked with pain and it didn't subside until the morning after. There's a good chance that it was brought on, believe it or not, by having Rice 2 nights in a row with supper! Any form of gluten can increase inflamation but it seems to me and others on the Ankylosing Spondylitus Awareness Project (ASAP) FaceBook page that Rice in particular over indulged seem to be the worse. I know that I didn't do anything physically to cause my back to hurt like that.
This disease SUCKS!!!
If you haven't read my ABOUT ME let me recap. Ankylosing Sponylitus is a Gentic Disorder (so I probably gave it to my daughter as well) that causes inflamation in the joints, particularly in the spine and fusing of joints, Right now my Sacro-Illiac Joints are about halfway fused. It usually takes 8-10 YEARS to be properly diagnosed while in the mean time most physicians are saying the pain is in your head or think you are just trying to trick theminto giving you pain meds. And if that wasn't enough, this disease is incurable. It's life sentence of pain.
There are times when I ENVY Cancer victems and I'm not the only one with this disease who have done so. Reason being that for cancer patients their suffering is only temporary one way or the other. Many times like last night I wasn't sure if I could handle it any more or why I should.
Pray for me that I have the strength to go on.
