The Axial Spondyloarthritis Podcast

Jayson: Welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. This is going to be really a neat episode because I've got James Allen on the line. James is a fellow ankylosing spondylitis person. And James has developed a really cool app called Chronic Insights. And James, how are you doing today? James: Hi, Jayson. I'm not too bad today. Yeah, you know, the usual ups and downs, aches and...

Jayson: Welcome to this week's episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I'm very lucky today to have on Dr. David Fox. Dr. Fox is one of the co-chairs of the University of Michigan's Autoimmune Center of Excellence. Dr. Fox has been a rheumatologist for a number of years, a member of the medical school faculty since 1985, Dr. Foxx is a professor of Internal Medicine, and from 1990 to 2018 wa...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. It's so great to be here. As I record this sitting in my apartment it’s March of 2020 and it's about 55 degrees outside here in Michigan. So I know that's not warm to many of you, but for this winter, it just tells us that now we're starting to head into spring and the warm weather is on its way and man that just makes me so...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I'm really glad that we can connect and discuss these topics on Ankylosing Spondylitis. So first I wanted to read a new review I got from Susan in Tampa, in the United States. She left a review on iTunes for the show and she said,  “I was very glad to hear Jayson talk about dating. My experience has been upsetting in th...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I hope this episode finds everybody doing fantastic. I have a huge favor to ask of everybody listening, it doesn't matter where you're at in the world, if you would go to spondypodcast.com and sign up for The Ankylosing Spondylitis Newsletter, and kind of poke around the site and take a look at it, I would really appreciate...

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I hope everybody is doing fantastic as this episode reaches you. It’s been just a great couple of weeks going on here as far as health wise, I mean, I've been dealing with some fatigue, but, you know, I hope everybody is feeling great, fighting the fatigue that you can keep up that good battle against Ankylosing Spondylitis.&...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. This is your host, Jayson Sacco and I hope everybody is having a fantastic day. You know, personally these last few weeks, I've been really dealing with some what seems like extra amount of fatigue. And I don't seem to be the only personal loan as I read through the Facebook forums, notice a lot of questions on fatigue and h...

Welcome to this episode of The ankylosing spondylitis podcast. This is going to be a little bit different of an episode today I'm really excited. I've got Courtney Garber on and Courtney is the Assistant Store Manager and CBD Educator of the Fort Collins, Colorado retail store for Joy Organics, which is a CBD manufacturing company, retail sales. They just cover all sorts of different angles and ha...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I hope everybody's doing fantastic today; I apologize if the audio quality is off a little bit. I'm fighting a bit of a head cold, so I can't really tell if I'm sounding clear or not. I'm real happy to be here today and be able to record and talk with everybody about what I think is a really cool resource.  But first, I...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I know I've said it before, but I've got to say it again. We've hit over 12,000 downloads across the world with this show. If it wasn't for all you listeners, none of this would be possible. I love hearing from everybody. It has been just amazing to hear everybody's stories of how they have dealt with AS, and I wanted to poi...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. Wow, am I excited to be here today! It is really amazing as I looked at the stats the other day.  I want to welcome people coming in from all over the world. We've had listeners pop up from Portugal from Costa Rica, from Guatemala, from Ecuador! Add that into, you know, Morocco, Algeria, England, Canada, the United...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. My name is Jayson Sacco and I want to welcome you to another episode where we're going to talk about something that affects all of us to various degrees, fatigue. What is fatigue and how to potentially fight it? So how do you know if you're dealing with fatigue or if you just plain tired? Well, as I was searching around, I s...

Hello, and welcome to 2020. This is The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast and my name is Jayson Sacco and thank you for joining me today. You know, as many do on this first day of the year, I've been reflecting on my life and my interactions with Ankylosing Spondylitis. You know, I've been dealing with Ankylosing Spondylitis and its effects on me for about four decades now. And in those four decades,...

Hello, and welcome to The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I can't believe this is the final episode of 2019. So as I wrap up 2019 and look towards 2020, it's just been a fantastic run this year. This is the 30th episode of the show and I wanted to do something a little bit different for this episode. As we look at having Ankylosing Spondylitis and interact on the message boards on Facebook and on...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. It's going to sound like a broken record, but I just can't thank all of you listeners enough. It's been incredible the numbers that I keep seeing on the show, we've now been downloaded in 58 different countries. To me, that's amazing. When I went about making the show, it was going to be only in English. And I didn't really...

Hello, and welcome to The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. Can you believe that this is almost the end of 2019? Man this year has just flown by. It's been a really, really interesting year for me from the great highs with this show, the great numbers that have come in and the positive feedback I've got from everybody about liking the show, to going from highs like that to dealing with the passing o...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. Again, the show continues to grow by leaps and bounds and we've now been listened to in 54 different countries. I bring that up and tell you all just to share it with you and let you know that this community of us, all of us with Ankylosing Spondylitis, it's huge and it reaches across the globe. So it's really exciting to se...

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis podcast. My name is Jayson Sacco and I thought we would cover today some new best practices for rheumatologists in working with Ankylosing Spondylitis patients.  Now these are updates that came about from the annual rheumatologist meeting that was held earlier this year. These are the guidelines from the American College of Rheum...

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. I decided in this episode I was going to kind of revisit some of the areas that we had already touched upon and some issues I’ve been having with my right eye brought this upon.  I started looking around I said, you know, I've kind of touched about all this, but I'm going to tie them into this package of nine possible co...

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. This is going to be the 23rd episode already. This is fantastic. In this episode I'm going to talk about, you've been diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Now what? First I want to recognize that it's just been amazing. The number of downloads I've seen coming through for November, is looking like it could top October, whi...

I apologize about my stuffiness in this episode. My allergies were really bad… Hello and welcome to this episode of the Ankylosing Spondylitis podcast. It's really great to have you all back for another episode. This is going to be an interesting one; it's going to get a little deep, maybe a little heavy. First I want to start it off with an email that I received. This person named Shawn wrote me...

Hello, and welcome to The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. Well, this is the month of November and I hope everybody's doing well. First I want to take a minute to talk about the show itself. I cannot thank everybody enough for making October just an amazing month for the show. The download numbers were through the roof and the feedback I got on the episodes was fantastic. So I really appreciate tha...

In this episode, I speak with Riley Cook about her Ankylosing Spondylitis and her service dog Gatsby and the various ways he helps her on a day to day basis.. Riley has been dealing with AS for about 10 years. A few years ago she decided she needed a service dog and took on the task of training Gatsby herself to perform the needed tasks. Gatsby can help Riley with a number of daily tasks like help...

In this episode, I present a brief history of Ankylosing Spondylitis.   But first, the Question of the Week; on one of the Facebook Forums, I saw a question related to leg neuropathy from hip surgery. Getting leg neuropathy from a hip replacement is a known issue that you can encounter. While both the Orthopedic Surgeon and the Anastesealogist are working on you during a surgery, your ne...

In this episode, I look at 10 natural ways to help cope with Ankylosing Spondylitis.  As with anything related to the treatment of your medical condition, please consult with your doctors about any exercise or procedures you want to try.  I used the following article as a basis for this discussion:   https://www.healthline.com/health/ankylosing-spondylitis-natural-treatmen...