Gary, I’m very glad that yours has been fairly mild compared to some of us. But it is obviously still painful and I do find that heating ads are my friend in the morning when I get up before work, and in the evening when I watch a little TV before bed. I also have a heated mattress pad and during the winter time I sleep on that very low level but it just helps take a little of the edge off. Unfortunately, I can’t take tramadol because it makes me sick like the opiates. The only radiologic confirmation, I have is my back has bone spurs, stenosis, and bulging disc. My shoulders have severe osteoarthritis, and one shoulder and moderate in the left, and both of them have bones spurs. I assume that I could possibly have them in my elbows, feels like a tendinitis in both elbows. I have epidural and radiofrequency ablation and steroid blocks in my back and shoulders. My hips do bother me, but they are both mild osteoarthritis at this point.
Again, I will be thinking of all of you during all of our painful journeys. Anything anybody has to add that can make any of our lives a little easier, is welcomed.🙏❤️‍🩹