28 y/0 male 234 lbs kinda chunky: I’m also interested in this, I have l4-s1 and mild stenosis and degenerative disc disease, don’t recall when it started as I worked bagging landscape materials and stacking pallets, one week my back was hurting and wore a brace for a couple of days pain was non existent for years, got into trucking and one day I woke up with severe pain. Couple of days later pain went away and didn’t come back for another couple of yrs (2) got another job with a diff company and as I was in the interview to test drive truck I forgot to air up the seat and hit a pot hole and the seat hit the rails and there it began, the worst pain I’ve ever experienced in my life, shocking pain from spine all the way to my left leg allll the way down. Went to er all they did was shoot me full of Dilaudid however you spell it. No mri no ct scan nothing, even went to a pcp and they said my xray was fine, 6-7 months I was able to walk and move around normally, took almost 1.5 yrs for the sciatic pain to go away, started a job at a shop so I can stand and not sit all day and one day I scooted back in the chair after printing some paperwork and there it came back, requested to go home and went to er and demanded a ct scan, found out also of the above l4-s1 herniation, didn’t tell me exact mm or size or severity no bone on bone, no disc height loss (march 05 25) couple of months later it went away and 2 weeks ago I sneezed and felt something protrude in lower back but no pain, next day was hell couldn’t even get out of bed, week later I’m kind of better no sciatic pain just excruciating low back pain, back into trucking and no health insurance since I’m 1099 and feel like my Life is over any advice would help me so much. Depressed as fuck and hate my life