I got the same injury, I was climbing down a ladder from a 3 stores building and one of the legs sunk down and I fell down... I broke my tailbone, sacrum, I chipped my pelvic, I cracked 2 vertebraes and I got the L2 burst fracture... I was in one of the best hospitals in USA but I was in intense care only for 4 days and they discharged me because they saw me walking after my second day when I got my turtle shell, I didn't feel ready to go home because they did not explained to me what I really have, I just fund out that I have a burst fracture, just because I heard one of the nurses that my L2 exploded... that's why I assumed that I got a burst fracture since she also said that I cracked my T2 and some other vertebrae which I believed is a compression fracture, anyways I wish you guys can tell me more since as stupid it sounds after 3 weeks I found out how bad this can be, just like you, I don't have much pain and I don't take pills because I started getting sucidal thoughts and for my own good first I starTed quitting taking them at night even if I was in pain, than gradually I am quitting taking them during the day time, I can walk without using my walker I can get anything from the floor, I can roll over the bed but I didn't know I am damaging myself since I read the Sci nurse comment, please let me know how are you doing please, I want to be same if is possible because of my kids and wife, they need me.