I'm sorry that it didn't go well for you. I can't help but think that you need a different doctor and hospital tho.

A local orthopedic surgeon told me there was nothing that could be done for me too, and his solution was to send me to a pain management specialist. Well excuse me Mr Doctor - I don't want to just "manage" the pain - I want find a way to be rid of it. I sought out a doctor out of state - a spine specialist at a large university teaching hospital/medical center - and within a few weeks I was undergoing surgery. This doctor was appalled that the local doctor had told me that nothing could be done for me. I have been pain free since the surgery a couple of years ago.

Surely there must be other doctors at your disposal. Keep looking till you find one that can do something for you, and don't let them brush you off and say there's nothing they can do. The more a doctor would tell me that, then the more determined I would be to prove them wrong.