You started PT too late!
The degeneration you mention would be substantially slowed, or even reversed by weight training started as late as 60 years.
Again, multiple studies on this.
There are women in their 80s lifting weights now.
And yes, you’re right, once a certain threshold is crossed, there is no alternative to opioids. But earlier intervention, by initially denying pain meds and insisting on PT is a far better course.
It’s a negligence crime by your doctors over the decades, starting when you were 50 years old.
I have 3 sisters, 63, 60 and 59. They ALL lift weights now. Of course they are not HEAVY weights like what a man would use, but they do it. And do it regularly.
All 3 have bone mass above average, are not as risk of osteoporosis and are without chronic pain.
It’s the sedentary life that is the source of the vast majority of chronic pain.
That is where you are wrong, my first PT was in my 30’s. It popped another disc. From there it went down hill.
I’ve gone to PT every time I’ve been sent, all were disasters with new damage being down. OOPS were Sorry you are not Treatable.
They need to READ what Fibromyalgia is, it is a degenerative muscle disease. It requires a different approach and different techniques, not your standard ones, or 13 weeks. 80% are women and most have Thyroid disease on top of that.
Osteoratoritis Drugs destroyed my Gastro tract, then the PPI’s my Bones. Not 1 WARNING THAT THEY WERE BLACK BOXED EITHER!
Not 1 word is being said about riding the market of the Black Boxed OA drugs! Which are Black Boxed for Both Heart and GI disease.
With the exception of the Fibromyalgia all my health condition are directly related to FDA approved Black Boxed drugs. NOT 1 of them Treatable or fixable. The only thing they can do is manage the Neuropathy and Fibromyalgia pain. GI doesn’t tolerate Opioids. Ive not drawn a pain free breathe in 30 yrs unless I was under anthesia.