Should I have back surgery?

Go see a good, reputable, evidence based chiropractor before letting someone cut you open. The shots will help, but they only hide the symptom (pain) and aggrevate the cause. You'll feel better and do more things, then feel worse.

Well I have three, and opiate based narcotics are not the answer. I was even on long acting methadone for pain and they say that doesn't need to be increased. HA HA HA. If you need to work where your job is anything but sitting in a desk all day, I think you can bear it, aspirin works. If your physical, hmmmmmmmm. I would check the credability of the surgeon, or get the best money can buy. It is a simple procedure now and I heard a lot of good results. Again, going on pain killers is not the answer, once on those, you will have pain you never knew you even had and when not working right, your back will hurt 1000 times worse. IN addicts, they call this withdrawal, and you get carted off like an animal. From a real doctor, they call this breakthrough pain, a way to disquise the fact you are withdrawing because you cannot legally give opiates to an addict , so they call it breakthrough. It is a mess all around. If you can afford or your insurance company can afford the surgery, your young and can take the time off work, you might want to consider it, however again,I heard a lot of horror stories. My opinion, eat the pain.

The surgery on the lower spinal disc has a high risk, please find out every detail and the risk of this operation, Only then you could have a real option to go for.

Good luck and take care.

if you can get a secend and third opion. cuz pain pills just hide the pain and aggrevate the problem. not sure how bad your pain or problem is but i have a invert where you kind of hang upside down it helped my back ait releaved the pain

Get a second and third opion before getting surgery. I also had (have) a partially herinated disk. It took a while but I recovered without surgery. Surgery may be needed but get more opinions.