@dstone501957 Yikes! I think you are correct about cervical spine issues of nerve compression. Doctors see what they want to see, and the neurologists have been pushing drugs to treat symptoms instead of looking for the cause of the problem. You really need above all else, the opinion from a good spine surgeon. You have the right to fire doctors who are not helping you and seek better specialists. This is exactly why patients need to advocate for themselves. If you have physical problems, perhaps physical therapy helps that or surgery that corrects a physical problem of structural damage and compression. No drug is going to fix spinal cord or nerve compression. They are just treating symptoms and not solving problems. They have been wasting your time as your spine condition worsens and you have symptoms common to cases of spinal cord compression. It's just maddening. I went through 2 years of jumping through hoops and being denied help. They wanted to give me Gabapentin too. I chose surgery instead when I found a competent surgeon at Mayo. I did it early enough that all my pre-surgery pain was resolved, and I don't have spine related pain or disability from a spine condition now. Keep after your surgeon about the radiology report and you may want to research some other surgeons for second opinions. There will be a waiting line for an appointment.