My suggestion to you is to read as much as you can about this disease. When I was told I had it, it was like a lightbulb moment. Things that I have been feeling for a while, now made sense. But I also had parathyroid disease and had a parathyroid removed and some things kind of crossover with symptoms. But I do live with dish And I am in pain most of the time, but not as much pain as I could be without pain management. Aqua therapy has also been good and I unfortunately have not been able to do it in a few months due to family issue. But my plan is to get back to it soon because it’s helpful in many ways. Find yourself a good spine specialist and I have a rheumatologist who can’t help me with the medications he normally uses for his patients, but is very informed about the disease. If you have rheumatoid arthritis, then he will be helpful for you. I do not have rheumatoid arthritis. I have osteoarthritis and dish which is a non-inflammatory arthritis or so they say. Doesn’t seem to make sense when I tell you to take a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication to treat it. So I get a lot of pain management treatments. I get them in my lower and upper back and now in my shoulder area into my neck. But I do have pain in my other joints as well. I have bone spurs in my shoulders, spine the bottom and back of my feet. The bottom and back of my feet I have had since I was in my late 20s to early 30s . I do still work full-time. So pain management helps me do that with the steroid blocks, epidural’s, and radio frequency ablation’s. I wish you good luck finding people who really understand this disease, and pray that your pain becomes manageable.