Welcome laurie,
Nice to meet you - I hope we can help, and we can always give support.
Sometimes we need to adapt and become type C instead of type A.
But we usually go thru the 5 steps of grief/loss on our way to adapting.

Have you had any physical therapy or a evaluation by an expert PT ?{or expert chiro}

There are alternative therapies also that might help for the pain-
HBOT, Low level laser, TENS...

much info is listed our useful sticky thread -
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=247