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You brain somehow get used to the pain when it meticulously destroy your body for no reason, no danger, no signal everyday. I have ankylosing spondylitis.

Lasg time I heavily cut my finger while cooking, didnt feel a thing. Didnt feel anything on my first tattoo - the tattoo artist was quite surprised.

Now I feel a bit better with some anti IL17 medicine.

And yet some day the pain comes back with new, untold and unreasonable levels of pain and you can't explain that to most people. The scale has changed and most of you will never feel that - or just once in a while. But not enough, not everyday with this consistency that shreds through your mental ability to take it and to shatter your life.

I would trade a night of torture against my health back.

And then the doctor with all his knowledge says that no - no other painkillers for AS ! Just nsaids !

Please donate for autoimmune disorders, they are awful




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