Hi , I am new here . I am looking for some advice about my spine disease . i have sciatic pain going to right leg and lower back pain for 10 months now . I am 22 years old and most of my life i was plaiyng soccer , going to the gym. 5-6 times a week i was doing some kind of sport. It started on 10th of January 2016 , It came from nothing , I was sitting on my chair and all of a sudden I started to feel terrible pain in my leg(behing the knee)
. Firstly I went to Family doctor who said that it is something wrong with my knee-maybe ACL . so for 2 first months I had physiotherapy directed to treat my knee . Pain was getting worst - it went to the back of my ankle, I felt pain al the way my right leg. Finally my physiotherapist asked me if I had back problems before - I said that I had felt back pain from time to time but It was going away after few days . I decided to check this out , I did X-Ray and went to Chiropractor . He saw my X-Ray and then my nightmare started. Idon't know if he was qualified and good Specialist but anyway - He said that I will never play soccer again and probably I will finish on the wheelchair in age of 50. I took what he said with a pinch of salt , Couldn't believe it. After that I went to physiotherapist specialising in back pain and did MRI . He saw my MRI and diagnosed a bulging disc in L5-S1 with herniation possibility which is pushing spinal nerve root. Also L5-L4 bulging disc . I've been doing physio for 2 months - from May to July. Then I had to stop the treatment because of my job. I've been abroad for 3 months without any treatment , working on the gas station as a cashier. I was careful , I was trying to avoid lifting , not to bent , doing McKenzie excersises and kepping the right posture. Pain was not worse and was not better either. Now i am coming back from work and I've started my physio again . I am doing back excercices such as Mckenzie extention , Bird Dog , i sit on my fitness ball and bounce , Avoid long sitting and trying to move as much as I can . I still have this sciatic pain all the time , every day 24/7 . I think that my body after 10 months of Pain learnt to tolerate this pain but I can't imagine to live with this disease my whole live so I came here looking for help.
What do You think about it ? Can I get out of this ? Is it possible to heal discs in this stage of the disease? What should I do?
Here is My lower back MRI
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