U are lucky. Every case is so different. I dodged the bullet for awhile. But now have severe, unrelenting pain. Can't sit up, or get out of bed too much. Your details are harrowing, being misdiagnosed that way. Hope you continue to be pain free. I am at the point, that i need to go to ER for large dose of Dilaudid ER's here, are so over crowded & back pain is not considered an emergency, so you go to the end of the line & sit in waiting room for 6 hours, before getting seen