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Traveling with back pain? Read this. Learn how to travel in comfort with travel tips for managing back & neck pain. Keep chronic pain at bay with heat therapy, lumbar support, pain medication, seat modifications, and more. Degenerative disc disease, spinal cord injuries, spinal stenosis,& lower back problems don't have to keep you home. Lower back pain when driving or flying? Find travel comfort with these great tips from a back pain sufferer and solo world traveler.

even though I had been living with considerable pain for a decade, I tried not to talk about it. I didn't want coworkers, boyfriends, friends or even strangers thinking I was weak, whiny, or otherwise sick. I kept thinking that if only doctors could figure out what I had, they could cure it, and I could move on to enjoying my success and traveling the world. But faced with the new found knowledge that what I had didn't have a cure, and that it could actually get exponentially worse, I made the choice to really buckle down and see as much of the world as possible before my health seriously deteriorated.