wow your symptoms sound sooo much like mine but they so myelopathy. From what I can see the vertebrae and disks are very close to the spine but not touching. But I wonder, that's laying down. Sitting gives me more symptoms. No loss of bladder control thank goodness! Your description of pain sounds like mine, only it varies by the hour, which side hurts more. My lumbar is in good shape and they think the leg symptoms are from muscles in spasm or shortened because I have scoliosis. I have bone spurs from like c-2 to c7. Discs are desicated in my spine and they said my spine was encroaching. I did make an appt with a neurosurgeon. I feel the pain management doctor would give me shots until I have myelopathy. I want someone who knows the spine the best to look at me. Want2bwell, how do you manage it?