Ouch!

I definitely had a bad night last night. The hip pain woke me up half a dozen times. I hate to start taking Vicodin again, but the acetaminophen just isn't doing the job. Big sigh! I have a feeling this isn't going to get better soon. And I have my own ideas as to why; the medical community doesn't see spinal Stenosis as much of a problem. After all, most of the victims are old. We're not going to be around that much longer. Most doctors that I see have no words of hope. They commiserate with me but they don't offer me a chance to regain what I've lost. So do I just get used to it?

"Currently, it is estimated that as many as 400,000 Americans, most over the age of 60, may already be suffering from the symptoms of lumbar spinal Stenosis"

And it's only going to become worse. "the number of persons aged 60 years or older estimated to be nearly 600 million in 1999 and is projected to grow to almost 2 billion by 2050, at which time the population of older persons will be larger than the population of children (0-14 years) for the first time in human history."