I used to be in terrible pain. Spasms, sciatia, couldn't sit, stand anything. Horrible! I had two MRIs, a bone scan..... neverending physiotherapy, acupuncture, saw 3 consultants and the lot. The best they could do for me was suggest an epidural and going to a pain clinic.... That's when I decided conventional wasn't doing it for me and went down a very alternative route which helped a good deal. These days I only have the odd twich here and there and I'm with an australian chiropractor who uses kinesiology, which is brilliant and I'm with an Amatsu practitioner and between the two of them I am a happy camper. But I don't have a bulging disk as such, I have degeneration in a disk, so I guess you're buldge would be way more aggravating than my condition. But I thought you might want to look into this: It's a world-renowned institute in Germany that uses the most modern technologies for micro-surgery. I got on to them when I was really bad and sent them all my x-rays and MRIs per post and they gave me a first diagnosis bases on that. The rang me and were incredibly nice and helpful. They said they could operate and gave me some options, but in the end I decided against it (it also isn't very cheap but what's money when you feel c***) as I still had hope to get better without, which thankfully happened, but it took me a good 5 years...