Thanks dmx. I sincerely appreciate your concern and advice. I have several reasons why I've declined Remicade treatments at this time, but they're very personal reasons which I would not be comfortable discussing here.
My most recent MRI was clean (no fusion) - even in the SI joints. Of course, this was almost 1 year ago and I know I'm sitting on a ticking time bomb. I'm just hoping it has a long timer.

Perhaps down the road my situation will change and I'll take the anti-TNF route, but for now, I'm just going to have to keep fighting the good fight!