I have been dealing with back pain for over a year now. I have tried physical therapy and many different pain meds and those for inflammation. over the past month the pain has gotten really bad. I have started to have loss of feeling on my left side all the way to foot. I have told my doctor numerous times there is something wrong, he keeps saying its my fibromyalgia and just raises my dosage on the gabapentin. I have started having awful pain in my head that doesn t go away and I feel like I am going to have a aneurism. the pain is so bad I can t sleep or hardly move. I finally saw a orthopedic doctor to follow up on my knee surgery and he is the on that let me know that I had a pinched nerve or herniated disc in my back. he ordered a MRI of my back but it seems to be taking forever and I was considering going to ER today because I am in so much pain and I have exhausted all my options to help with the pain.