Is there no real medical help for severe back pain? I've been to two doctors and no med helps, it is not improving. Doc refuses to do a scan?

Go to a different Doctor. You need an Xray.

Could very well be that your pain is psycho-somatic. It happens all the time - and that might explain why the doctors are reticent about spending money on scans or heavy dope. It might also explain why medicines like ibuprofen don't work.

There's a lot of this...... and we all want to think that certainly WE could never have psycho-somatic pain - but we do anyway. If you want to read about it, get Dr. Sarno's "Divided Mind" off of Amazon. Back pain is what he seems to specialize in except that psycho-somatic pain can take a whole array of forms.

Some people can dump their pain in the garbage just from reading the book.

I've had an x-ray, just no MRI or Cat scan. The pain is not all in my head, it gets so much worse with activity. I need more answers!