Hi all, I have severe scoliosis crushing my lungs going across my chest towards my heart and also my diaphragm is up in my lung area. I was told there is nothing that can be done to stop the progression. I am elderly and have osteoporosis and the screws would not hold. The hollow area between my 2 collarbones is now over to the right of my neck and my esophagus and trachea are bent at the collarbone area. Also my abdominal area is affected to the point that my gallbladder is down with my appendix. I never had scoliosis until I had a bad fall about 10 years ago and started to feel short of breath. It was first diagnosed as exercise induced asthma but it turned out to be my spine. I was basically told that eventually I will suffocate to death which did not make me feel too good but I have learned to live with it. My breathing is getting worse, especially since this past February I fell and broke my right hip and shoulder and must have jarred my spine as my breathing is worse since then. Those are the only 2 falls I have had and that first one was on concrete where I tripped on a cement car stop on a snowy day and went down face first with my bag in front of me digging up into my diaphragm. I also lost 4 front teeth from that fall. I had taken hubby for a 2nd procedure to try to remove a 180 degree precancerous polyp from his duodenum and he was still a bit loopy when they discharged him so I was paying more attention to him than where I was walking. I actually fell in the hospital parking lot. It really was a doozy of a fall.