New here but not to back pain. I have been dealing with upper to middle back pain since last summer. It started with my shoulder blade area last summer, it was more bothersome than anything. Oh and I should add at that time my left hand started to feel week. I couldn't grasp objects tightly and also made writing difficult at times.

Fast forward to last winter. My back started hurting right in the middle of the back sometimes feeling as if someone had stuck a knife in my spine and was twisting. Since then I have been seeing a D.O. who thought he could fix me up. Not happening. I was on hydrocodone 500/5 for almost 8 months and then Doctor took me off of them. I was only taking 1-2 a day as prescribed by the Doctor. I wanted to take more but this was all he would allow.

Now I have had an mri and it really didn't show anything except 2 mild disc bulges at t 4/5 t 6/7 which the Doctor said should not be causing pain.

So now my pain is mostly on my right side radiating down from my shoulder blade, down my right side through my butt and down my leg. My leg tingles all of the time except when laying down. As a matter of fact, I have hardly and pain or discomfort when I am lying down.

I start physical therapy next week and I don't really expect it to help but I will give it a go.

Has anyone else suffered these symptoms? And is it possible that the person who read my mri didn't see everything. All my Doctor got was the report, he didn't have the actual pictures of the mri.

I'm getting desperate, this is no way to live. I can't hardly do anything without this horrible pain rearing its ugly head.

Sorry for the length of this post. Hope I got everything.