Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Noisy movement

For me the "grinding" noises happened when the neck was almost fused. The noises were actually the calcifications for lack of a better word rubbin together. Like little stalagmites/tites meeting up and as I moved my neck they would rub together. On quite a few occasions I had broken the ends of these little things off luckily to float away somewhere in the body and not in the spinal column. This was also a bad time pain wise as the inflamation was horrific. Just as a fusion would happen I would break that fusion causing more inflamation. As another posted I too am 100% fused and in A LOT less pain than those days thank god!!

hope it helps,

Bob

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