When I was a teenager, I would get really bad cramps during the monthly. They would go down my legs and hurt like heck.

I mention this because I get pain in my legs every so often but not all the time. It feels like the leg pain of my youth. I can go for weeks without leg pain. However, it seems the leg stuff has been getting more frequent. I spoke to a surgeion. He said he wouldn't operate because I don't have the normal symptoms i.e. leg pain etc that is usually normal with lumbar junk.