re: Do doctors not prescribe pain pills anymore?

Go see a chiropractor.

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Because they are being watched like hawks about frivioulous perscriptions. Not saying you are at all, but lots and lots of people are going to them with 'symptoms' such as yours but they just want the pain meds. They probably suspect you're one of them.

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This. There are so many drug seekers now that the good are suffering for the bad basically.

I had bulging disc and pinched nerves in C-4-C-6 earlier this year. Traction at home, Celebrex, flexoril and 3 epidurals I was fine. I still have a little discomfort but for the most part the numbness in my fingers and pain in my shoulder and arm has gone away and never was I prescribed any narcotic, and all I had to do was ask my wife to call it in for me if I really wanted it.

Go see a pain management doc, get an MRI and get a series of epidurals.