I have really bad spine, and upper body joint pain. I just try to stay active, and I get by with a little hep from my friends.

Nothing for me to complain about. I have a degenerative disc in my back. It's more of an annoyance than a pain. Once in a while it hurts where I would consider it pain. My brother got hurt at work a few years ago and had back surgery. His pain was either the same or worse after he had the surgery. He's in pain every day and takes pain killers. At one point he got dependent on the more powerful pain killers. Now he's taking lower strength pain killers. If I can avoid back surgery the rest of my life, I will.

I had severe pain for years. Doctors could not tell me why. Then it got to the point I could not function. Found a good rhuematologist who found the problem. Autoimmune arthritis. Similar to rheumatoid but a little different. Long name - undiferentiated spondyloarthritis. Or USpA.

I've dealt with it my entire life. I stretch at least an hour of every day just to stay loose. Whenever I have a task like that, I actually sit down so that I can keep my head up and glance down at what I'm doing. It's the looking down that causes my back and neck to get stiff. Washing dishes is the worst for me, but cutting food up comes next.

I've got a lower back thing going and I can't figure out why!

Been trying to stretch it out, but no luck.

I remember the good old days when I didn't make a noise when I stood up.