Thanks for your help and advice, supernova_krose. I have found you and many others on this forum to be extremely helpful and very informative in these confusing times that I have been having with my spine.

I have asked the hospital for copies of my MRI and x-ray results reports and will also ask them for copies of the MRI and x-rays. I am just waiting to hear if they'll let me have them. I'll let you know if they do let me have them and tell you what the results reports say. I haven't thought of that - where you can send the MRIs and x-rays to be looked at.

I found the website that you gave a link to helpful and informative. Thank you very much.

I would also be grateful if anyone could recommend any hospitals or spine surgeons that are in the UK as I am certainly thinking of going to a different hospital to the one that keeps putting me onto physiotherapists all the time as I think it's time I saw a spine surgeon now.