@pattismith - I experience a burning spine in my thoracic region, but additionally muscle spasms along my cervical and thoracic spine. To me the burning is along both sides of the spine. Could you describe your sensation with more description? When my spine is touched during these flares, it can hurt worse unless extreme pressure is placed on it. When one area is touched, the pain tends to migrate. But, yes, burning is the correct term.
Your burn is a focal one, so I have no idea about it.
Mine is an acute whole spine burning, it is the worst of my symptom. I experienced it when I was at my worst 2.5 years ago, and this was the main reason I was considering ending life to stop this suffering.
Hopefully, I took azithromycin 500 mg /day at that time, and it saved me, the pain disappeared in one or two days.
I was free of it from this time, but got a relapse last week, after an osteopathy session.
The practitioner decided to twist my spine (cervicals, thoracic and lower), and this was the trigger for the pain that arised two days after that.
I took again azithromycin and got free of pain the third day.
Azithromycin has spinal antiinflammatory properties, so maybe you could have relief of your focal spine pain as well?