@candy101 after 1.5 years your compression fracture HAS healed. You are outside the window for the surgical procedures that inject cement. The cement kind of props up the part of the vertebra that collapsed. A compression fracture is more of a collapse on the inward side of the vertebtra than a "break" like a fractured arm.

I was offered the surgical procedure but my doc said the outcome would not be that different and it was done only for short term pain relief. There are risks to kyphoplasty such as migration of cement into lungs.

I had a fall years ago and fractured T 12 and T 6. The ER got a negative x-ray that said no fracture, and like you, I went months in pain with my PCP telling me it was soft tissue. When I finally got to a spine specialist I was told that it takes 48 hours for a compression fracture to show up in an x-ray! Grrrrrr!! I got a brace 6 months after the injury which didn't help much and I really didn't use it.

Fast forward to last year and I fractured 3 lumbar vertebrae via osteoporosis this time. I knew enough to wait two days to have the x-ray 🙂 I got a soft brace and declined the kyphoplasty despite pain. I am resigned to pain and still walk every day. Tai chi feels good. Hope you feel better!