Thanks everyone. I am hoping I can find other doctors to give me 3rd and 4th opinions before I call it quit. I am severely allergic to narcotics, sleeping pills, anti-seizure med and anti-depressants so treatments are further limited. I spent lots of money for physicial therapy for 2 years with no result. But learned deep breathing (which I no longer can use since I can take deep breathing because of costochondritis in my chest/lung area and rib cages) for pain management.

However, I do visualization, self hypnosis, meditation and poetry writing to manage pain without meds somewhat. However, when I can't use my hands, arms and wrists for poetry writing due to inflammation and pain, it is a bummer. Since one of pain mgmt tool gets broken.

Do you know any rheumy who is specialized in handling severe, severe AS patient anywhere in the U.S.???