Strange, my last post posted itself before I finished!

Apparently I have extra growths of bone around the top and bottom of each vertebra.When I have a problem with the disk I have to take anti-inflamatories quickly or else it causes a prolonged problem.
I find that standing still for long periods causes pain in the back but walking helps. This is annoying as I'm spending quite a bit of time up scaffolding in my spare(laughs) time at the monment, re-pointing the house. I can't move around a lot up there!
My cousin has much worse problems than me, with spondulosis, so I think of myself as lucky by comparison.
Is it coincidence that I cannot hold my arms up outstretched for long? I found this out when I was dragged along to a tai chi class at Ely festival one year. Lost out on that exercise but when we were told to breath in and out slowly for twenty breaths I was only up to seven when the instructor thought that we had all finished!