Symptoms Of Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterew’s disease) does not develop symptoms, but the first manifestation of this disease often omits not only doctors but also patients. The first and most common symptoms - is pain in the sacrum, which is often mistaken for sciatica, constant fatigue and pain in the joints. More specific is the so-called "morning" syndrome, when waking up after a night's sleep, a man for some time can not move his limbs. Immobility in the joints usually passes through a half hour.
Pain in the joints are characteristic of many diseases, ankylosing spondylitis but is distinguished by the fact that in this case, the pain persists for the rest of the joint. Conversely, exercise can bring relief.
Ankylosing spondylitis can occur in three forms: central and peripheral and radial. In the first two forms of symptoms is back pain, developing droop, inability to straighten yourself. While the peripheral form of the disease begins with the defeat of the knee and ankle joints. Swollen knee - one of the reasons to suspect the disease.
Night pain - another symptom of the disease. Usually they are amplified close to the morning. In the afternoon, after midday, could almost completely disappear.
About Ankylosing spondylitis's disease symptoms may be indicative not only of the joints, but also other organs and body systems. Symptom is often accompanied by inflammation in the organs of vision. In patients with ankylosing spondylarthritis have problems from breathing the expense of the shape of the chest.
With the development of the disease is a change of posture the patient by the disappearance of the physiological curves of the spine. Loins become unnaturally straight, man lose the ability not only to sag back and forth, but in the hand (this feature helps doctors distinguish between patients with Ankylosing spondylitis's disease from patients with severe degenerative disc disease). More affected root joints - hip and shoulder. Usually the disease "comes from the bottom up, so the latter are affected and lose their mobility of the cervical vertebrae.
Inflammatory processes in the joints often accompanied by a slight fever and elevated ESR in the blood.
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