By agressive I mean the doctors willingness to move ahead and treat this pain with dramatic action. If the disc is bulging it does not have to mean invasive surgery, it can be helped with physical therapy (non-agressive) or steroid injections (still non-agressive but more so than p.T.) and then there are other minimally invasive treatments where the doc inserts a wire into the nucleas (sp) of the disc and heats it up to essentially melt the core and allow the bulge to shrink and also if there are tears in the disc this will help to mend them by melting the disc and patching itself.
If they choose to go invasive it will be a life changing surgery, it could give you 100% mobility and pain free living or for someone like me, the charite disc replacement at l5/s1 fixed my discc pain but now I am suffering from facet nerve/joit pain and begining to have sclerosis at l4/5 and l5/s1.
Again, you are on a very strange mix of meds for the pain you are having and I would venture a guess that it is not the darvacet that is making you woosy but the soma at such high levels.
You should try to private message a person on this forum that goes by the name: painphysician and ask what he would suggest if in fact he will suggest anything. It can be dangerous for a doc to offer free advice so if he will help I think you will be very pleased with his answer.
Good luck,
brian
