I have a herniated disk in lower back from an accident 5 years ago it took untill jan this year to get an mri which revealed herniated disk pressing on my siatic nerve ..had physio again and it has stopped the chronic pain mostly in my leg but I'm still in chronic pain with my lower back in currently on pre gabalin which the side effects are horrendous but I didn't get on with amitriptyline or gabipentin either .. i hsve seen 4 different drs and all told me this is it untill hodpital conviders surgery .my gp said itoday it should of fixed itself by now the disk and I'm like I've had this 5 years and scan was in Jan this year showing slipped disk so I'm going to be refured for another mri to see what's happening but im confused if the disk has fixed why am i still in chronic pain? Anyone got any ideas
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