The parts nobody else sees
Ankylosing spondylitis is a daily load: a back that is stiffest first thing in the morning, pain that wakes you before dawn, and years of being told it was a strain. Healya is built by people who know what that load feels like.
Your back is often stiffest when you wake up, and it loosens once you start moving.
Back pain can wake you in the second half of the night, and getting up eases it.
Many people wait years for a diagnosis because the back pain is first called a strain.
Your numbers already tell a story
Healya connects your inflammation labs, morning stiffness, nights woken by pain, medicine doses and what your watch sees so the story is visible, to you and to your rheumatologist.
Your CRP at nine draws over two years, with the day you started the monthly injection marked. It dropped from 19 into range after it, stayed low for six draws, and rose to 16 this October.
Minutes of morning stiffness you logged each week over twelve weeks, with the week the injection restarted marked. They climbed from 25 to 90 by the week it restarted and have come down to 40 since.
Nights you logged waking with back pain each month from February to September, as bars and as a line, with the month the insurance changed marked. One or two a month through June, 3 in July, 8 in August and 10 in September.
Told for years it was a strained back, newly diagnosed after an MRI of your sacroiliac joints, or years into treatment and watching for flares: your stiffness and labs are data, and Healya can track them.
How Healya helps with ankylosing spondylitis
A record that catches the stiffness coming back
A thirty-second check-in of morning stiffness, back pain, sleep and energy, so a flare that builds over a few weeks is visible to you and your rheumatologist instead of lost between visits.
Labs explained in plain words
Your CRP and ESR, and the hemoglobin and liver checks often drawn alongside them: what each one measures in plain words, which way it moved since last time, and what is worth asking about at the next visit.
Check-ins that pair the numbers with the night
Stiffness minutes, nights woken by pain, doses taken, sleep, steps from your watch and what changed that day, side by side, so patterns stop being guesses.
A summary your rheumatologist can scan
A year of inflammation labs, morning stiffness, nights woken by pain, medicine doses, missed doses and any hospital stays on one page, with the questions worth asking. Short visits go further when the story is already organized.
No wearable required. A thirty-second daily check-in is enough.
Reports written for ankylosing spondylitis
Three kinds, each built from your own record. A summary before every rheumatology visit. A report on how your back and your labs are actually doing. And a plain-language digest of new spondylitis research, on a schedule you choose.
Questions people with ankylosing spondylitis ask us
Clear answers about what Healya does with your data, and what stays between you and your care team.
Bring your story together
Your inflammation labs, stiffness log, nights woken by pain and medicine doses in one place before your next appointment. Free for a week, no card required.