Aimee.... please go read my wife's story on the GPN website linked in my sig file below. That will go a long way towards explaining your leg pain... pictures of her MRI, etc...
With such serious leg pain, I've VERY surprised that no MRI was ordered. If you have any bowel or bladder symptoms, you'll want to take this... and get your doctors to take this much more seriously. Disc protrusions can resolve on thier own... deciding what to do will be difficult.
While my wife's discectomy was successful last year in resolving the disc protrusion and leg pain, her disc was too severely compromised and she graduated very quickly... she had artificial disc replacement last week. Hopefully, your disc is in better shape... hopefully, you'll get away without surgery. I have to run... can't write more now... WELCOME to the forum... sorry you need it.
All the best,
Mark
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