Sounds like a challenging position to be in. If you do consider surgery a discogram may help localize the back pain - provided they do it properly with a "control level", but you should know that 5+ year follow ups on discogram patients has shown accelerated disc degeneration. The other thing to consider before surgery is having an upright MRI or upright myelogram performed. Imaging while having the spine under gravity has shown good promise in helping to identify the problem level of clinically relevant spinal stenosis - the presumed cause of your leg pain.
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