To all my senior adult friends, I feel your pain.

Back and hip pain can be debilitating.

Two months ago, I wrote about the sciatic pain I was having, which made it excruciating to sit or drive.

I feel like I am finally getting better.

I appreciate all the suggestions people have shared with me for what helped them.

I have concluded that the elimination of back/hip pain can come about not by one single solution.

The return to normalcy is aided by doing everything that you possibly can.

Here is the progression of all I have done for three months:

- Stretching, isometric and strengthening exercises several times every day

- Increased intake of dietary supplements (Juice Plus) and probiotics

- Increase of anti-inflammatory foods such as blueberries and greens; massage therapist

- RedRush light array therapy

- TENS (electrical stimulation), replaced with Neuro MD

- Drinking 34 ounces of ozone water daily

- King Brand ice wrap and heat wrap

- Magnet Belt wrap - 1600–2000 mg ibuprofen daily for a month

- Replaced Ibuprofen with Curamin and other all-natural anti-inflammatories such as IbuActin

- Seven sessions with Fizical physical therapy on Longs Pond Road which included: a daily regimen of stretching and exercises, athletic tape, traction, laser and wearing a compression belt

- Eight sessions (so far) with Peach Orchard Family Chiropractic which has included: X-rays revealing misalignment of pelvis and sacrum, electrical stimulation and back/hip adjustments.

- An inversion table that hangs you upside down to decompress the spine

(Meanwhile, Medicare kicked in on Nov. 1!)

Add to this three months to let the body adjust to changes.

All the while many people prayed for me.

I believe that prayers have been answered.

I also believe that what I have experienced has been for a purpose.

I am humbled to understand better now what many senior adults suffer constantly.

It is so good to be able to simply sit in a restaurant or drive a car without pain!

We take so many things for granted.