Mild foot drop/severe pain

5 weeks ago I developed severe pain on the left side of my back that, over the course of 4 hours went from a nusance to unable to sit down, and within another 4 hours was unable to walk with no feeling from my knee through my big toe.  After 4 days, the back pain relieved itself almost instantly in my back.  But, the numbness in my knee through my toe remained and severe pain has also remained.  I noticed I couldn't lift my foot farther than flat with the floor.  Although I say the area was "numb", it was extremely painful with everything from tingles to burning to cramps to sharp shooting pains.  It also is extremely painful to flex my foot (like to a point).  I am getting slight improvement in being able to move my foot and the numbness is relieving itself slightly, but the pain is still very severe.  I am also pregnant.

I have seen a neurologist (I have only mild foot drop), and I had an MRI which indicated that my back was fine (no L4/L5 disk herniation which was suspected).  I am working with a chiropractor and doing acupuncture.  But the benefits are very slight.  The Neurologist indicated that a nerve convergence test would be the next step, but I'm not sure how that would help.

Is there any thing else I should be doing or any other specialist I should be seeing that may help.  I'm on T3s and Percocepts for the pain (taken sparingly given the pregnancy) and haven't slept much in 5 weeks.  It would be nice to be off the pain meds entirely and to have some hope that this may end.

Not sure what to do next to try to fix this.

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