Information and opinions on health from Jan Steckel7 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/9843/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/9843/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/9843/index http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/9843/13381/poet-jan-md Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:56:00 -0400 Jan Steckel7     I’d probably still be a pediatrician if it weren’t for bad degenerative disc disease that started in medical school. I’ve been in increasing left low back and left leg pain for nearly twenty years. For the first twelve years I had difficulty sitting, so I would stand for shifts as long as thirty-six hours. Now I can’t stand for long either, and I spend most of my time horizontal. I left the practice of... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/9843/13381/poet-jan-md