What are the serious symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis?

Ankylosing spondylitis is actually a relatively common disease, but many friends do not take it seriously. If ankylosing spondylitis continues to worsen, the pain felt by the patient will also continue to increase. In the early stages, patients will have obvious symptoms, such as tenderness in the hip joints, sternum, ribs, and femurs. Ankylosing spondylitis is actually not a serious disease, but all diseases need to be treated early, otherwise it will cause more damage to your health. The spine is a very important part of the human skeleton, so during the treatment period, the patient should need to rest more so that the spine can be sufficiently relaxed to recover.

Common symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis in daily life:

1. The most common symptom of patients in the early stage is arthritis around the disease. The disease is most common in the hip joint, accounting for 35% of the population, and the shoulder joint is the second most common site. Occasionally there are knee joint lesions. Other joints are rarely affected.

2. Patients will have tenderness points in the exo-articular skeleton in the early stages, mainly occurring at the sternocostal junction, spinous process, iliac spine, greater trochanter of the femur, tibial tuberosity, ischial tuberosity and heel. Sometimes these symptoms can also appear early.

3. Patients will experience chest tightness in the early stages, which is sometimes accompanied by radiating intercostal neuralgia. Only a few patients find that their chest cannot expand fully when they inhale. Due to the ankylosis of the costovertebral joints, during examination it can be found that the thorax cannot move during inspiration and breathing can only rely on the diaphragm.

4. Lower back pain and spinal stiffness are the most obvious symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis in the early stages. Lower back pain occurs slowly and is dull. It is difficult to tell where the pain is, and sometimes it involves the buttocks. The pain may also be severe, concentrated near the sacroiliac joint, radiating to the iliac spine, greater trochanter and posterior thigh. At first, the pain may be bilateral or unilateral, but after a few months it becomes bilateral and lower back stiffness occurs.

5. Morning stiffness is a very common symptom and can last for several hours. Long-term inactivity makes stiffness more obvious.

6. Extraskeletal lesions

Is ankylosing spondylitis serious? Through the above introduction, I believe you have a general understanding of the severity of ankylosing spondylitis. In addition, patients may experience symptoms of pain in the heels, knees, and hip joints, but many people will not pay attention to it, nor will they think that it is this disease. Therefore, many patients with ankylosing spondylitis will not receive formal treatment until their condition becomes serious. At this time, the best time for cure has been missed. It is very necessary for people to strengthen their understanding of ankylosing spondylitis and go to a regular specialist hospital for examination in time when similar symptoms occur.