So time for an update. Finally saw a specialist. It is arthritis. Mixed with muscle pulls, I was feeling a lot more pain than usual. I was given a new prescription for pain and a supplement to rebuild the fluid between my joints and for joint health. Took 2 days for a dramatic change in pain. Where I had been at a 7 to 9 on the pain scale, I was down to a 3 or 4 again. I'm still sore but mostly in my hips now where I feel most of the arthritis. I'm a little weak but I need physical therapy to fix that. Unfortunately one never returns my calls and the other wants money I don't have. So I'm still trying to change my career back to art as full time due to the pain still plaguing me at times, but because I don't have a job yet, my cousin has kicked me out of the place I've called home for the pas 6 years just because I can't afford to pay her rent anymore...I'm hoping to find a place within a couple of weeks to months but I'm now stuck at my brother's tiny studio apartment till I can. I feel so terrible because I'm such a burden. I constantly fight between having clinical depression and preventing myself from hitting rock bottom. The comic company that I've started to work for again can't help too much but are trying since they are moving studios. My anxiety is through the roof despite the numb mask I've left on. I'm so scared and as much as I love my fiance, he can't help because hes fixing his own financial issues which I AM proud to see him get that worked through, and still dealing with many pressures from work as is. It's been hard to work on some art, most of it has been sketches and nothing more. Drawing seems to keep me mostly sane during this transition but the stress of it is still driving me crazy. Maybe when I'm out of my cousin's I'll feel better.