Sorry that I haven't peeked in much lately.
I haven't read all the replies here so a lot of this might be redundant. the most unmanageable my life ever got from AS was a two year period when I was going through brutal neck spasms with pain that radiated up the back of my neck so sharply into the back of my skull that it fell like darts were shooting in that spot into my eyes from behind.
I could not raise my head of the bed without agony after sleeping because the tightening of my neck muscles to lift my head would throw my neck into a clenching spasm.
It sounds like your pain is similar or cause dby the same areas being affected.
Acupunctue helped beyond belief. It took a very good acupuncutist and it took a series of four or five visits over two to three weeks but nothing else made the pains abate and gave me my life back like that. I alsp bought a portable traction kit to ever so gently stretch my neck out on my own.
Finally because I never want to revisit that sort of pain I now get a massage of just my neck and upper back once every two weeks to keep away from getting near those types of spasms.
My wife, the ever lovely Diane, bought me a very kewl high powered portable tens kit.
Used together I have lots of tightness but not many returns to that raging pain
Hope so very much that you are feeling some relief. I don't want anyone here going throught that sort of pain. It hurt to do everything and it actually made focusing my attention on anything else difficult.
