I've been dealing with this problem for years! Although I'm new here I am not new to pain. Since I'm only 32 and 165lbs doctors refuse to listen to me too, so I hear you. Somedays I can get out of bed, somedays I can't.

It's taken me 5 years including 2 MRIs and a CT to get to the doorstep of surgery. Still, no doc will prescribe pain meds. End of story.

It's so enraging to be shrugged off, and so humiliating that I've actually had to stop seeing doctors for pain entirely. Injections and treatment only. Obviosuly post-surgery I would get something, but day to day Tram is all I can get.

Pain management has had to become handled privately, and to great expense financially.