My daughter 23 has recently been diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. In the space of four months she has gone from living a full and active life to being in constant and severe pain, dosed up on morphine, diclofenac, tramadol, amitriptiline, paracetamol and oramorph. She works between one and two hours a day and spends the rest of the time in bed or on the sofa.
She's lost a stone which is a significant amount when she only weighed seven stone to start with because she is in pain or suffering side effects.
She was always independent and now she relies on me cleaning her house, cooking her food and running her about as driving is painful.
She has had xrays and blood tests and will be starting Adalimumab in the next three or four weeks if everything is clear.Wondering whether anyone has experience of either AS or immunosuppressant therapy?
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Autoimmune disease
Ankylosing Spondylitis and Adalimumab immunosuppressant therapy
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1nsanityscatching · 26/04/2017 20:01
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