I born with an extra Lumbar vert....they call it spondalitis L6, and so about age of puberty ~13 y/o I have had bad back pains, they subsided a bit along about age 30 but with general arthritis, I found winters in Md. to be a BAD LONG PAIN so moved to Florida back in '97, we sure enough the shit caught up with me, Last Feb I had a really bad attack, worse then in my teens/twenties.....ER Xrays and found out my entire spine is trash, no cartilage between two of the Lumbars and they are growing together as a result, but my spine is essentially trash from neck to ass.....and it hurts a LOT all the time, when in the hospital I got some pills that were a huge relief Methocarbamol 750 mg same as Robaxin 750 mg......so with Ibuprofen 600 mg twice a day, when my spine kicks up I pop one of them, but caution is that it's a woose pill, snore.....and yes, I drink about 500 ml of 80 proof Canadian over ice with water.....snore by 10 pm.....
age 71` here....