ankylosing spondylitis
"Humira is a miracle.  Prior to being on Humira I had tried two previous solutions NSAIDs and a non-starch diet with lots of exercise.  NSAIDs had absolutely no effect.  The non-starch diet with some exercise did help bring the pain to what I would call manageable but flares would still happen and with them would come several day cycle of poor sleep, less exercise, and so on.

My rheumatologist explained that some new research suggest Humira may actually help to stop the progression of the disease so I gave it a shot (pun, hah!).

It took about 3 weeks to start kicking in and by week 5 my symptoms were totally gone.  No back pain.  No shoulder pain.  No waking up in the middle of the night."