I am at a similar pt. Heybro.I sent you a pm but it was awhile ago. I am going to order the edgelow too though and try some new things. Did your pt give you home exercises to do? Mine help me alot and I am religious about doing them every day. I cant believe your pt wants you to take a year break especially when youve had such good results. Mine wants to dismiss me too soon, he says he dismmises people when they are at 80% and then it takes alot longer to get better than that so then you are on your own. He says though that I can always come back. Their version of better is different than ours. Thats when its time to find some new therapy-massage, acupunture,injections?

Its true it seems like there are not very many success stories here and it also discourages me from wanting the surgery, but sometimes I feel desperate. In my case I have decided if i am not able to go back to work and make it work then I will look into surgery again.