1. Methotrexate: Methotrexate can be used for patients with active ankylosing spondylitis who have no response to sulfasalazine and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. However, through comparative observation, it is found that this product can only improve the manifestations of peripheral arthritis, low back pain, stiffness and iritis, as well as the levels of erythrocyte sedimentation rate and CRP, but there is no evidence to improve the radiation lesions of axial joints.
2. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: These drugs can quickly improve patients' back pain and stiffness, reduce joint swelling and pain, and increase the range of activities. No matter the symptoms of patients with ankylosing spondylitis in early or late stage, it is the first choice. There are many kinds of anti-inflammatory drugs, but the curative effect on ankylosing spondylitis is roughly the same.
3. sulfasalazine: This drug can improve the joint pain, swelling and stiffness of ankylosing spondylitis, reduce serum IgA level and other laboratory activity indexes, and is especially suitable for improving patients' peripheral arthritis, and has the functions of preventing recurrence and alleviating the pathological changes of the disease complicated with anterior uveitis.
4. Glucocorticoid: When a few cases can't control the symptoms even with high-dose anti-inflammatory drugs, methylprednisolone pulse therapy for 3 consecutive days can temporarily relieve the pain.
Doctors suggest that patients with ankylosing spondylitis have certain risks if they use drugs for a long time to alleviate their illness, and there are various dangers in using drugs for a long time. Patients with ankylosing spondylitis should receive correct treatment as soon as possible to avoid later disability, joint fusion and nerve compression leading to sexual dysfunction and affecting family happiness. Under the current medical level, choosing the right treatment method can completely achieve clinical cure!
Although drug therapy can effectively relieve the pain of patients with rigidity, it can treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and there are a lot of hormones in it. Experts do not recommend long-term medication. Because the spinal cell activation therapy system is used to treat rigidity, I hope it can help patients recover as soon as possible, and hope to adopt it!