Here I go again....

I haven't been here in a long time. I have had another cervical spine surgery and a low back surgery since I was last on here. Also arthritis is still with me and lately it's very painful. Tomorrow I am going to rheumatologist in Greenville, it has been a few years since I have seen one and she may tell me it is osteoarthritis and I just have to live with the pain, but I need to know nothing else is going on. I am going to pain management for my back, first injection did absolutely nothing and I don't know how many more I really want at this point. I guess I am just a little lost in this journey of mine, not knowing what direction to go in. I do know that I would like to avoid anymore surgeries. I take gabapentin, I've been on it for years and that's about it for the arthritis. They want to know if anyone in my family had arthritis and what kind, no one talked to me about what kind they just said arthritis and all of my family died young, Dad at 36, Mom at 56 and sister at 59, my mom's parents at 68. And here I am at 72 and don't have a lot of information about anyone's arthritis.....so what do you do? Anyway wish me luck tomorrow that I can get some kind of answers and just not be passed back off to pcp! Thanks for reading!