For bout a month now, I’ve been in and out of the doctor’s office, an orthopedic, and now a physical therapist’s office. I’ve had x-rays of my hips and lower back, a CT Scan of my spleen since I’m just getting over mono, blood work to rule out a couple of things that run in my family like lupus, and an ultrasound of my kidneys to see if it was a kidney stone like my doctor originally thought.
When all of that was ruled out, I was sent to an orthopedic. The orthopedic said that it sounded like my facet joints being inflamed due to the mono though it was rare for my age, and my muscles were tightening in response which could have resulted in my siatic (not sure how to spell that, sorry) nerve being pinched by them. I was told physical therapy for two week, twice a week, my muscle relaxers and an anti-inflammatory.
When I saw the therapist, at the end of the session, she said it sounded and seemed more like a disc problem to her. We told her that disc issues run in my family which they do, on all sides. I go back to therapy this Wednesday and Friday, and then the orthopedic on Friday afternoon after therapy. If I’m not feeling better which I haven’t been, then I go for an MRI.
I’ve been on 3 different pain killers which I’ve been told to stop taking them now to prevent getting an addiction to them. I can only sit in the computer chair, I’m home bound from school (a teacher from the county comes to me), I can’t bend in any way, I can barely get dressed, I can’t even lift my left leg up to put a sock on. I’m a 16 year old female, I’ve always had minor back problems, at least the last few years I have, but nothing ever quite like this. My dad seems to agree with the therapist, and I’m just worrying a lot. The pain goes from the lower left side of my back, through my butt, down my leg to my foot and back up, just on the back side of my leg. For a few days the pain was just to my knee and back, but it’s started going down farther. I’m currently sleeping on the couch before I can’t lift my leg to get in my bed (it’s a higher then normal bed), and this has been going on for the last month or so like I stated above.
Is there a doctor on here or someone that’s gone through something similar that could maybe give me an idea of what exactly this could be because if it’s a disc issue then I’m basically looking at surgery and missing a lot of the last 9 weeks of the school year which the 9 weeks starts tomorrow and I’ve already missed basically half of this semester.

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