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This past year has by far, been the most back pain I've ever felt in my life. Before, I only hurt in my lower back. This past year I have developed back in my mid-back, where my bra strap snaps& under my right shoulder blade more over to the right.
All the specialists I have been to & my docs say its only gonna get worse. My question, is how much worse? I feel like an 80 year old in a 26 year olds body. Ive recently started developing depression and anxiety because of this back pain; I become frustrated easily and short tempered.
Everything is beginning to get on my nerves and I feel like I've been pushing what little friends I have away. And it's all because of pain and suffering. Anyone that isn't in chronic pain doesn't understand how it is waking up and going to bed in pain, everyday of your life.
How do you have a normal life when you're in chronic pain? Does it ever become easier? I don't have any kids yet, but I would like to have them with my husband in the future. I am so scared, that I won't be able to carry a child full term, or that I will experience back labor. Can anyone give me any advice, that has degenerative disc disease and/or narrowing disc space/arthritis? Thank you in advance.View Thread

He has referred me to one and I have an appointment Jan 9th. I am quiet nervous about the rheumatoid arthritis test that he talked to me about them giving me. I had a nerve test done in my of my hands/arms when I had my carpal tunnel/tendonitis in my right hand. That test before that surgery was something else. I just can't imagine having needles stuck all in my back and everything else, when I'm in the amount of pain I am in, already.
I just know that there has got to be something that can be done to help me. I've tried everything else.View Thread
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