I, too, have severe pain and it is hard for me to quilt as well. I can't quilt very long, so I do it only in short sessions. It hurts me cut the fabric, so I put my dining room table on bed risers so that it would be higher and easier to rotary cut. My chiropractor told me that I could not do any task for longer 10-15 minutes. I have my sewing space set up so that the cutting table is in one room and my ironing station and sewing machine is in another, so that I have to get up and walk from one room to another. It helps to walk, even if it's only a few steps, it helps with the pain. All I can do is suggest that you do any task for short periods and then do something else and then come back to it. I know how much pain makes anything so much harder, but, there are ways to keep the hobbies we love and still not make the pain worse. Good luck!