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excrutiating pain in low spine

I have had Lumbar MRI, Sacral MRI, soft tissue MRI, CT Scan, XRay  and bone scans with NO FINDINGS.  No one can find the problem.  I am in such pain that I can't hardly walk without screaming out.  It feels like someone is stabbing my spine with an ice pick and I scream out.  I am 43 and did not injure myself or anything.  It started in Sept 07 and I spend most of my time just able to sit.  I can't lay down very long due to the pain.  I can't live on pain pills which is the only thing the doctors offer me for help.  I have small kids and I can't spend my whole life sitting in a chair.  I feel like I have a splinter in my spine that I can feel but no one can see.  It's very low like just below L5.  I had a lamenectomy in 2002 but the nuerosurgeon said it's not that.  I feel like I am losing my mind because each test is all for nothing.
Five months and still no diagnosis!!
Carol
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Did the low back MRI showed any fluid in facet joints?
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171791 tn?1358214381
Maybe you need another doctor to check you out.  I had to go to 3 before they found my back problem.  
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