Hi Jay,

Over the last three days (4,5,6) on LDN I have gotten my left wrist back!! I couldn't bend it forward or back very far, it was very stiff and painful, and now viola!! It works again. I have maintained use of my rt. shoulder and my left arm is about 50% there too. I had an episode Sunday night where over the course of 3 hours my left hip SI joint flared insanely right before bed and when I woke up it was a little stiff for an hour but other than that it was better!! (Amazing to have something heal up that fast.) Since I have had AS that is the one thing I have missed the most, "injuries that heal." I have been very tired lately and plagued with headaches but this could still be the effects of the enbrel. I wish I could have waited to get the enbrel completely out of my system before plunging into LDN but I was starting to seize up big time and I was so afraid of the impending pain. Been there, done that, don't want to go back.

Other things I have noticed on LDN, I went to bed with swollen lymph glands and the startings of a sore throat one night. I woke up the next morning with NO sore throat. Amazing, as I have been on both Enbrel and Steroids in the last 30 days. I have also gone from 5 muscle spasm incidents per night pre-LDN to zero last night. When I get into bed my leg and back muscles can actually relax. I'm a believer. Basically the only things really noticably wrong with me have nothing to do with the As anymore, thanks to LDN. I have nausea and GI pain from the NSAIDS and heart issues and headaches? from the enbrel, or probably the headache is my body "jonesing" for some more steroid. Everything wrong with me right now was caused by a drug I took.
Things that make me go "hmmmmmmmmmm."

Take care,
Donette