Back problems anyone?

Alrighy now, this is the why of everything. When I was 26 I woke up one day feeling fine. I got up and proceeded the day with my normal routine. As the day progress I started having pain in my lower back. I took some aspirin for it and continued my day. But my back just got stiffer until the next day when I couldn't get out of bed at all. I ended staying in bed for two days and then I went to the doctors. Of course they then sent me for a MRI. The results said I had degenetive disc disease. They told me it would not get better but only worse. They also told me there are ways to help with the pain, to make life more managable. Hahaha, yeah ok. I must have cried for hours. I'm not the type to take it easy and I don't like being laid up. My big reason why is because of my greatest fear. You see both of my grandmothers died being laid up in a bed. The last 10 yrs of their lives was confined to a bed. Having people to constantly taking care of them. I don't want to end up like that. It really scares me. So now I got a bad back, plus my right knee has had two surgeries on it. Anyway for about 5 years my back pain was mild. It came and went. Then all the sudden it became constant, always hurting. I started pain management, they gave me injections that never worked. My lifestyle changed, I couldn't sit for more then 10 mins nor stand for more than 20 without pain. Even sleeping became almost impossible. I hated it. I just wanted it to go away. I wanted a doctor that understood my pain and that actually help instead of trying injections that didn't work. I gave up and stopped going to the doctor. Grin and bear it. I started taking ibuprofen to help with the pain and I got up to taking about 16 pills a day. I was almost crawling to the bathroom in the morning. My job was only 2 minutes from my house and I had to get up at least 2 hours before I had to be there because it took my back that long to stretch out. This was my life and how it will be. Then a prayer was answered.