greentires4me, So sorry you're dealing with bad back pain too. It really is debilitating.

I heard back from my Dr. yesterday. I only have the one fractured vertebrae that we already knew about, and there was no sign of arthritis. But I have a rather bad scoliosis which she thinks is the cause of the pain.

She's recommended physiotherapy. Now will come the trick of finding a physiotherapy clinic which will accept gov't insurance, which is all I have, and pays out at a much lower rate than private insurance, so a lot of clinics don't accept it. I'm hoping I can find some place relatively close to me.

But on a seriously positive note, she also gave me the results of my last bone density scan, and it was normal, which is a minor miracle, given the years I spent drinking which causes calcium loss, as dose a couple of my meds, that I've been on long term.