I am 48 years old. While this condition has been developing for years, I really only started hurting recently (less than a year). But this has gone from-not knowing I even had it, to being unable to walk sometimes. At least once a week, I'm in bed for 2 days straight. My younger self would be slamming every available narcotic right now, but I have primarily been going the natural route. Exercises, stretching, eastern based therapy. But lately I've backed off everything so I can see if I'm making things worse. I follow a few different professionals on YouTube just because I needed visual examples of what exercises I could do, but I'm not sure if I'm making it worse. I just don't want to sit here and be a clump of immobilized rot.

I've seen 3 different doctors so far and I'm doing physical therapy. The doctors have differing opinions which only confuses me. Some say "it can't be fixed but it can be slowed down. And others say "with a couple of years of therapy it can be partially corrected." So I put my case before my suffering brothers and sisters. What are your overall thoughts on all this?

I wish you all the best in health and happiness, and may you have progress and recovery.