I am a 24 year old female. I have experienced excuciating back and leg pain since August of 2008. In December 2008, a CT L-Spine showed a disc protrusion in L5-S1 narrowing the left nerve root foramen greater than 50%. Despite conservative measures, the severe pain continues. An MRI in January of 2009 showed multi-level degenerative disc disease and "significant neural foraminal narrowing on the left, with near complete obliteration of the foramen."  My GP and a pain management doctor have failed to prescribe me appropriate narcotic pain medications at this time; despite any valid reason not to. Don't I have a right as a patient to relief from this incapacitating pain? How should I handle this matter? I feel I am being treated inhumanely.