Help!!! 22 y/o at a lost.
Sorry for the lengthy post, and sorry if it isn’t allowed. But if it is, please help.
I am a 22 Y/O relatively healthy mom of a 1 year old. For some background, I had started getting minor pains, ranging from 4/6 in pain at the age of 16 in the lower back and down my right knee. Restless leg in my right knee, my hips would hurt. Not a lot helped my pain. My doctor went with a diagnoses of my right leg being longer than my left? Which is true but not a cause of the pain. We ran testing and they sent me to PT which initially flared my back way worse. they then sent me to the chiro at age 17. The chiro pulled my testing up, and he showed me the spondylysis slippage, the degenerate disk disease, and arthritis in my lower L5 vertebrae. Nothing seemed to help and seemed to have nothing but fails. I gave up with finding a cause and decided the pain is better than the testing and spending money I didn’t have. at 20 I went to pain and spine management and they decide steroid injections and a 10s device. Nothing. Helped. Ever and I gave up AGAIN.
About 2 months ago I went back to pain and spine management to get more testing because severe pain started worse than ever. Ranging 8/10 daily. it showed from 2023 my back slipped 10MM making it a 13MM slip. They sent me to a neurosurgeon in st.louis, we got bone density testing, cat, ct testing done. He has diagnosed me with
“The examination demonstrates no evidence of acute osseous injury Since April 22, 2026 oh significant changes occurred. Anterolisthesis of L5 on S1 is again demonstrated without significant change. Upon flexion and extension there appears to be some increase in the anterolisthesis on flexion measuring approximately 13 mm as opposed to 9 mm on the extension.
6 mm of anterolisthesis of L5 on S1 due to bilateral L5 pars defects. No acute fracture. Vertebral body heights are maintained without compression deformity. Moderate disc space height loss and disc desiccation at L5-S1. Degenerative endplate edema at L5-S1
Bilateral L5 pars defects, with 13 mm anterolisthesis of L5 on S1. Moderate L5-S1 disc height loss. “ sent me to get pain relief from pain and spine management and the ended result was them saying “patient is being offered a fusion surgery of L5 on S1 due to an anterior listhesis leading to severe right-sided foraminal stenosis at this level.” More steroid injections. 7/2/2026 I went in for steroid injection “Interventional Procedure Note Lumbar/Sacral transforaminal epidural steroid injection RIGHT L5/S1 TFESI”
Any advice? Any help or leads you could send me to? My neurosurgeon keeps rescheduling and I’m at a lost. Thank you.