Hi, I'm new here I had a MRI on my lower back a couple weeks ago, as I was getting lower back pain and numbness along the outside of my left thigh and all my toes on the left apart from the big one was/is also numb.

I saw my GP today and she is referring me to a specialist I think orthopaedic surgeon. This is what was on the report :

The lumbar lordosis is maintained, standard segmentation is presumed.the cord terminates at the T12 returns normal signal. There is multilevel loss of the normal disc signal consistent with disc dehydration.

There are prominent central disc bulges at L2-3 and L3-4 with some loss of disc height but no significant nerve root compression.

At L4-5 there is a loss of disc height and a large central disc protrusion which extends into the left lateral recess causing compression on the forming left L5 nerve, is multilevel degenerative changes in the facet joints.

My GP doesn't think injections will help, any help, thoughts would be appreciated
Thanks Adi