I am very lucky - I don't have the pain. I did have a fair amount of pain in my lower spine around the time this happened and the only thing that seemed to help was swimming, an idea I got from, as I remember, a chiropractor. I still swim a lot and so far so good. But I may just be lucky, of course. Have you seen a physiatrist? My husband's back to his old hour-long walks in our small town after not being able to do that because of severe back pain for several years. He had skewed his body - quite visibly - and less than a year of the right PT fixed it. It's been great to get something back that he loved doing - at 87.