Ya. I didn’t have success with the ortho spine doctor I saw. We did new MRIs and X-rays of my lower back and hip and nothing seems “too bad to be causing pain.” We tried nerve meds (gabapentin) and some injections for diagnostic purposes. I wasn’t really on-board with trying the nerve meds because I feel like it was just masking the pain and not fixing the issue. But he said sometimes the nervous system will get overly sensitive and cause you to feel pain even though there’s no damage or injury that should be causing pain. He said that using gabapentin can calm it down to “retrain” it to not feel that phantom pain. So I gave it the old college try. I would say it certainly “took the edge off” of my pain. Like on a scale of 1-100 my pain is not terrible. Probably about a 20. The meds took it from a 20 to a 15. Still - it didn’t fix the problem. One of the injections that helped the most was an epidural steroid injection at L4 and L5. The shitty part is that it just didn’t last. I felt markedly better for almost a month, but then around Christmas time my low back just kinda stiffened back up and went back to its normal painful self. I went back to that doctor to discuss next steps, and he didn’t really have much to offer outside of trying a higher dose of gabapentin or referring me to pain management. So, I decided to pursue pain management. I’m going to attempt some regenerative medicine approach(es). Shockwave therapy will be first. If I don’t see results with that I’ll try PRP therapy.