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Congrats. My HLA B27 was positive but no signs of it on XRay or MRI. However, hard to get it out of mind!

Congrats and great job. My issue is that my HLA B27 is positive but no signs of AS on XRays and MRI's. However, you know, it's hard to get it out of my mind!

Hi Walt, Thank you for replying and for all the tips. I have tried many of the sleep promoting methods. The conscious tensing and untensing of the muscles and the counting backwards has helped a couple of times but I need to resume practicing. Part of the issue is muscle stiffness and insomnia...

Here is my story: Lower right side back pain starts in May of 2010. 2009 to 2010 was a stressful year, bought a foreclosed house and fixing it (I enjoyed it, or so I think), also doing IT side projects as well as keeping a full time job, which I was very comfortable. Pain starts slowly after I...