[Maria]

I hope it's not bad as in "bad enough" for surgery. I wonder if it's like my L3 which has been disrupted or with an annular tear for a long time but on discogram it wasn't a pain generator so when surgery was being proposed everyone was recommending surgery at L4 and L5S1 and I did wonder what would happen to L3.

When a fusion was recommended L3 was included tho not with ADR or ADR and fusion (hybrid).

Anyway now I wonder if it's L3 that's bugging me re my left over the hip pain or L4. Whatever it is so far it's not "that bad."

I do hope your pain will ease off tho. I'm sure I've asked you before if you've tried a Toradol shot 60mg IM to alleviate muscle spasms? Even when my pain feels disc like in origin/pain the Toradol helps a great deal it seems re the muscle spasms either created by the underlying disc prob or that re aggravating the disc and creating symptoms.

The grandkids sound like a very intense work out of sorts!! I know one you love tho not the pain!