I was always so afraid of being diagnosed with scoliosis. Those tests you took in the nurses office where you bent over and they put their hands all up your vertebrae... scared the crap out of me!
Sorry to hear about your situation, are you takin any kind of medication to ease the pain and/or discomfort? My mom's got a little bit of arthrities and she takes vitamin E pills, and fish oil pills, and says it works for her a bit.