question: Hi, I have had lower back pain for 9 years. it feels like a piece of glass pushing against the nerves in my back. Now 9 years later the pain is worse with pelvic numbness and weakness in the both legs. I just had a 2nd mri, done while sitting and extension, which showed some disk bulges and a bone spur but no impingement. Physical therapy made me worse, chiropractic care gave me complete pelvic numbness for up to 2 days after. Steriods do nothing. I feel like there a disk bulge pushing on nerves (1st mri showed an annular tear at l5-s1), or there is a bone growth on the vertebrae pushing on spinal nerves. My dad had a bone growth in his neck that needed to be removed, my hips were normal mris, but I had "massive" cartilage damage when the surgeon went into each hip because of CAM bone growth on the head of femur (hip arthroscopys). What should I do now.