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                        47/f diagnosed with spina bifida occulta into my late 30's, but I was crippled as a child from the waist down & told I would never walk again:  I walked 30 days later.  I had a chronic back condition, because the spina bifida occulta does not fuse at my tailbone.  I started taking glucosomine chondrotin (1 vitamin pill) 1500 & 1200 mg. & my back hasn't hurt in years.  It takes 3 months plus to work but it builds cartilage.  Im sure you'll try anything.  I was so depressed that I could'nt walk