All that is likely going on as with most cases of severe functionally incapacitating back pain is you've got some bad arse annular tearing going on, but on the MRI all you see is a typical grey disc with reasonable height.
Typically this is why people with severe incapacitating back pain are palmed off, as you cannot image annular tearing reliably without discogram and dye, and if you're doing that you're considering surgery.
As for the patient expressing intolerable pain, well the good doctor didn't go to med school for x years to have to listen to someone of such a lowly status as a patient.
Your doctors are unfortunately incompetent and you're going to have a find a way around them to get diagnosed let alone any possible surgery.
I'm sure lots of people on this website and others can give you names of more up to date spine surgeons.
I don't how long it's been this bad, but the acute stage can last longer than this arbitrary made up 3 month limit. If the condition has been degenerating slowly and is chronic then the outlook is a bleaker.
Good luck.
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