Hi just went to my GP. He is excellent. He made sense of the neurosurgeons babble. Saying they are Neuro SURGEONS and that if they can not see anything to cut out they have nothing to do. Kind of makes sense. He also said that the report says that the Wikipedia reference-linkMRI shows no evidence of degenerative changes or anything like that. A very healthy spine. I was worried that the mechanical cause of the injury may still be occurring. the Gp said that the MRI shows no evidence of any impingement on nerve roots or spinal cord. So in that sense good news from a sensible man.

I asked him your question about it being a picture of the now, not the then. He said that there would of been in the vast majority of cases some evidence of that on the MRI as I am still facing the pain. He has referred me to neurology which he says is the next step and has started treating the problem as a nerve pain problem with amytriptyline.

Hopefully this two pronged attack will help. See my physio on Monday for his advice to see what he thinks. Any further thoughts would be greatly appreciated.