I Have Chronic Back Pain

I suffer from very chronic back pain. Due to my accident back in February of 2015 in which I'm still recovering from, my back has been weak and I have to go through the pain everyday! It's terrible I have to wear a corset type of back brace to keep my spine straight and on top of that a super bulky hard shell brace. Whenever I use my walker to walk I need my assistant to hold my back for even more support due to the fact that my back locks up on me so often. Along with my other braces, neck brace (Miami J collar) and sometimes leg brace.

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Emma, I am used to it. I have had this since 1987 and I went for the first five or six years with nothing but Tylenol whick did very little for me. A lot of times back then I would hurt so bad that I would just pass out from it. Was in and out of hospital emergency rooms a lot.
Now with my doctor watching over me, I do much better. The disease has eaten up enough of my joints that I am starting to occasionally losing the use of some of the muscle in my legs. That is, I am afraid, how the specialist at Johns Hopkins said it would do. I am just not caving in to it and just keep moving.
There are more like you that I see are having far worse back problems than I do.