Twix, this is not boring at all. On the contrary -- it's validation. This year, about half the patients I've spoken to on the phone recall a time in their lives when they had some other serious health issue that MAY have started the degenerative process in the spine. Of these serious events, the ones that are most often mentioned are meningitis and Lyme disease.
Plain old "vanilla" blood tests usually reveal "boring" results. You may want to consider getting screened for the mycoplasmas and Borrelia, though most doctors will be resistant to such requests. Why they are is a mystery, given the ample clinical evidence presented internationally (some in this topic).
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