Information and opinions on health from charles at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/102478/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/102478/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/102478/index http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/102478/99936/pain-surgery Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:58:50 -0500 charles I have been living with back pain since at least 1998. However, at first I didn't realize what was happening to me. It started as spasms on the job (I was a bakery products salesman), then progressed to twiching by 2000. My job didn't help matters, but I had to work to provide for my family. Finally in 2002, the company that I worked for "cooked up" a reason to git rid of me and succeded. So I started another job, and for a while my pain was... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/102478/99936/pain-surgery