Spondylitis Association of America Forums General Discussion Young Adults - The 20-Something Club Welcome to the 20-Something Club

Hi everyone,

As you requested we have created a section in the forum for another age group that deals with spondylitis.

In the meantime we will keep an eye on the bandwidth just in case this new section has too much traffic.

james

THANK you so very much...alright 20-somethings, join in - this one is for you!!!

thank you james, thank you saa, you are dreamboats!!!! and loveys!!!

s.

Thank you for this! I really do appreciate it!

Thank you so much for starting this forum! You are amazing!

this is great! now i have a place where i can just flood with my 20 something problems and issues.

Yay! Thanks James. I love this message board and I love the SAA. Thanks for listening to and acting on our requests.

Yeah! Thank you

Mike, we have a few thirty-somethings that are cool enough to hang with us here too. My husband turns 30 next week, so obviously I can't discriminate too much. :P

im feeling a little lost. im 22yrws old and a couple months ago at wrk my ankly swelled after a coupke days resting it the pain and swelling got worse went to hospital and after they checked it wasnt a blood clot i was sent home a coupke days later my knee started to swell to yet again went to hospital and was sent home after 5weeks of agonising pain and no answers i was getting to breaking point my other leg was starting to swell the pain and stiffness has spead to my hips lower back hands and neck after 7weeks and barely able to walk i hit breaking point i was a mess somthing was crippling me and the hospital wouldnt help me i went to my gp crying and he ran a coupke blood text and x-rays i went bak a week later to be told i was ANA possitive this didnt measn much to me but my gp refered me to a rhematologist and i was immediately put onto predisolone after my secong visit with my rhemotologist the results where all in i have spondylitis now 4 months down the track and having to come off predisolone i am having no choice but to accet my illness no more predisolone and the pain i starting i have 3yr old so cant be crippled and althogh my partner works financially i cant not wrk atm we want another baby but that means no methotrexate and my rhemotogist wants me on it what are the other options are there many other 22yr olds with the same problems no one understand what i have the pain i live with everyday or the difficult decisions i need to make i feel so alone with this who knew it would be so hard to walk or get out of bed everyday

I am new to the whole as game and just started enbrel. It took over 5 years to diagnose me because the drs in idaho refuse to test young females for as. My father and brother both have as and along with that my entire family is swimming in autoimmune diseases. I'm trying to get tested for sjogrens as well. Most drs I have seen have confused my legit pain for hypochondria or a way to get drugs. I saw a specialist who refused to give me anything based on the fact that I have tattoos and piercings. My parents believed something was wrong with me and my father write an email to his rheumy because my dr would not give me a referral. This rheumy was kind enough to see me and he believes me. It has been a hard few years feeling like maybe the pain really isn't there and now I have a name for it and treatment. The only thing still bothering me is my fatigue. Anyone have advice on how to deal with my fatigue?

Angie in Boise
AS- indomethacin, enbrel, klonopin