[Maria]

Rjay,
I know my spine or think I do and just look at a dermatome chart in terms of symptoms however I'm an old time spiney with mostly same symptoms and not much below the low back at least not in terms of pain.

If I were you~ I would make sure to let your surgeon know what your new symptoms are to make sure you don't need to have additional evaluation to rule out another level. As Mark says, best to find out now, not later.

good luck and don't feel like you're pestering your spine surgeon~ I'm sure any practitioner/surgeon would want to be aware of any additional/new subjective (what you report) complaints so he or she may do any further objective (doctor's exam/eval) examination and/or additional testing possibly to further rule out any additional or differing problem before surgery is undertaken.