Sounds like the military and I. "Oh you're just having muscle spasms, here's some Motren and Flexeril, you'll be fine", until the day I couldn't walk. I was eating percoset like candy and it did nothing. The x ray tech on base said there was nothing wrong, but I looked at the x ray with the neurosurgeon and even I could see where the disk was smashed. A 2 hr surgery turned into 4 hrs once he got in there. He had to pick out pieces of my disk that were rubbing on my spine. I walked out of the damn place though.