Thanks for your answers. Especially Ed with the specific answers on your experience. I really would have thought the cold would have affected it more, and my wife did wonder if it would sense weather as you mention.
I am currently training in Networking and the internet to work where my daughter works, and they have health insurance. The past couple years I've been in a zombie fog due to medications, and recently it has cleared up by switching my prescriptions. I got the x-rays a couple weeks ago as I was applying for disability and had to be able to document the not-lift-heavy-stuff part. I'm not pursuing that now that I feel so much better.
I am 58 years old. I was born with the condition. Looking forward a bit, I don't know how bone loss will affect my configuration and I may very well have problems in the future. So I'd really like to know more about my condition and see if my would be of any use in helping others. I'm not too worried about radiation and would be willing to take a few hits for the cause. In my correspondence to UCSF I did mention I don't have problems and asked if that investigating my spine would be of any use. I've also sent a similar request off to the Scoliosis Research Society at their
info@srs.org address. Dr. Lenke is on the board of directors there.
In the meantime I've been going through Wikipedia to get an overview of kyphosis, scoliosis, kyphoscoliosis and stuff like lorderosis, lumbar, sciatica, Cobb angles and the various treatments. And yes, I take Wikipedia with a grain of salt, but I figured I'd get a good overview of my back as it relates to curvature.
I was a bit confused about the Cobb Angle. Does the angle get smaller or bigger the more normal your back is?
Also, do I understand correctly that the kyphosis is the 90 degree hard turn to the anterior (front) and lorderosis is the lumbar vertebrae curving back to normal?
Thanks again for your kind welcome and answers.