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I have had issues with pain almost all my life. Because of my spinal deformities (kyphosis and lordosis) my back is always painful which makes it hard to perform everyday activities. I have consulted many physicians in the last 25 years to try to help diagnois my many painful areas. None of them had any answers, until lately when fibyromialgia is better understood. As for the arthritis, I had a rhuematologist who diagnosed me with ankylosing spyndolosis and I was put on medications to help the pain in my lower back. I stopped going because the doctor was too far from work and more below