I had severe sciatica pain to the point of not being able to walk. The pain and numbness was terrible. I saw a surgeon after having an MRI and was told it was herniated and I needed surgery. With the terrible pain I didn't ask any questions I just wanted to pain to go away. I had an disectomy that failed in March of 2010. I didn't get any better and had a second disectomy in May of 2010. It still did not get better and I went to a different surgeon who said at this point I needed a fusion. This was after having 3 MRI's. I had the fusion surgery done in November 2010. I have been doing pretty well up until the early fall of this year. I always had some left over nerve pain and numbness in my right leg and that may never go away because I was pinched so long. But now I am having some of the same type of pain and sensation in my left leg of sciatica again. Would the fusion L4/L5 not having taken care of this part too? I do not want to go thru all this stuff again. Does anybody have any suggestions?