Thank you guys! I just feel so weary of it and I don't want to end up with permanent damage just because I needed CNA hours.

@ Leed: I've looked online and some people going to a chiro doesn't treat it either...maybe temporarily, sometimes make it even worse! And the nurses at work said you still have to pay quite a bit even if you have insurance as the hospital insurance doesn't really cover it or something. I don't know the EXTENT of the condition...but in my guts I feel like it could be degenerative...or thinning of the disc at my lower lumbar because when I move certain ways, I can feel the joints rubbing ---- Now I don't know if a lot of ppl can feel that too (who don't have back problems)...but I just happen to crack my fingers too sometimes out of habit. I don't really go see a dr that often, but I made an appt for a physical exam...Since I thought I could just ask the doc then about my bac.

Can you just get a MRI? Or does the condition have to be bad enough for the doc to order one for you? I feel kind of nervous since I'm basically working at that hospital.