Good advice...a couple of second opinions would not hurt. Let the docs show you the MRI, and explain to you what they are looking at, so you can see it yourself. Our bodies react differently to pain. Some people may be in a great deal of pain while others are not. You really don't want to mess around with spinal cord compression. I, too, have seen people lose function because they waited too long, or rather, their docs did. Hang in there.