That's what I have been doing the past 30 years until the summer heat made the problems intolerable. Every five years or so I would pursue a diagnosis due to some worsening. Nightcrawer refers to the way I was going upstairs at night, thought it was just conservation of energy, until someone else mentioned something similar. Stiffness has been lifelong and I don't notice it unless it's not there, like the two times I took steroids. So yes you can ignore problems and sometimes pay the price for trying to do today what you could do yesterday and might have been able to do tomorrow except you overdid it today. ;-). Someone's neurologist said you are caught between overdoing it and feeling lazy because you think you could have done more. NC