Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Sunlight burns my ankylosing spondylitis

Iam travelling a lot and apolozise for not responding earlier.

John's and Zark's observations are interesting.

Food, skin type, sun exposure, skin cancer?
As Zark mentioned, I eat vegetarian food + dairy. Also Iam from South India and have a skin type 4/5. So, far I did not hear skin cancer issues from friends/relatives. On the other hand many people from South India are non-vegetarians(meat-eaters) and do spend good amount of time in sun (no sun screens). So far I don't know of cases of skin-cancer. I will explore skin cancer rates in South India.

I guess the skin type (as opposed to food ) may have a greater impact on sun exposure?

Life style change and spondylitis connection?

I learnt that my ancestors did not have spondylitis(3 generations). It seems they used to walk a lot ( and used little/no vehicles). Spondylitis showed up in my father's generation onwards. Lifesyle changed from outdoors to indoors. Father is a professor and me a computer professional.

I suspect the genes evolved over years to take advantage of sunlight and lack of exposure to sunlight triggered a bunch of problems.

hi krishna,
actually I was thinking that a healthy diet would have more extensive effects then the cancer prevention. It seems sensible (to me at least) to assume that a good diet would also helps your body to convert sunlight into vitamin D, utilise the vit D, etc, etc.

with metta,
z

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Hi Zark,
If you find any articles, could you pls. post.
You may be right, a healthy diet is helpful. Even though I am not on any specific diet, as far as possible I avoid eating in restaurants.
Hope you are doing well. How is Ted doing?
Rgds.,
Krishna

hi krishna . am impressed with your methodical self research .

can you email me other literature you have on AS . my id is vision.ashish@gmail.com

Hi, All the AS info I have, I posted in my website or kickas.org. I stopped studying/collecting AS info for the last few years as I don't have AS symptoms (pain, swelling, stiffness). Thanks.,

Krishna,

I don't have AS symptoms (pain, swelling, stiffness).

Now that is news I like to hear!!!

Warm hugs,

I was surprised when my vitamin D levels were rather low after getting back an analysis. I've routinely taken cod liver oil, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I think I will start adding more sunlight. The rheumatic condition makes me so cold most of the time anyway, I think I instinctively want to sit in the sun these days.

Krishna,

It is nice to hear from you. Feels great to be pain free isn't it?
Previously when I tried sun treatment after I read your story it used to cause me a flare and used to get hives. Nowadays I enjoy facing the hot sun for 30 minutes everyday and get no flares or hives. The whole body feels relaxed after exposure to the sun.

~Ram

Hi there
I just wanted to mention that I try to avoid sunlight.
I find that if I spend time out in the sun then I am in worse pain . I guess for some the sunlight helps and for others the sunlight hurts.

Hi Johnny
I agree with you that the sunlight makes my AS worse.
I try to avoid the sunlight as much as possible because if i spend any amt of time in the sun the next day I am in agony.
I mentioned this to several doctors and they all seem to think that I should feel better with the sun. I was tested for Lupus and it came back neg .