That’s quite a lot to go through. I had 2 vomiting discs in my neck, which I had a steroid shot for and seemed to help for a while. Then one day I was starting to have my little pain between my shoulder blades and light arms. I thought that was kind of weird, but only last a few minutes so I didn’t complain too much then all of a sudden one day I lost and went to pull the lever on my chair and I couldn’t move my arm, so I went into AR ER and because of my age, they thought that I had a stroke, but I had told them I had two bulging disc on my neck and thought maybe that would be an issue. Finally, a new doctor replaced the other one and asked me if I wanted an MRI which I did and after the MRI they made appointment to go see a surgeon because of as you said the two bulging discs were bulging into my spinal cord, and the surgeon explained that if I didn’t have it taken care of the longer, I waited the less chances of having a full use of my arm so naturally I opted for the operation and it went very well and I’ve never had a really problem with that sense but my lower back has been an issue like you. I had several tests and MRIs and found pinched nerves and so forth I did have a three level cage done and I had an awful time of recovering from the surgery due to the anesthesia but luckily that recited and it took me about a year to get kind of pain-free, which only lasted few years because it doesn’t get rid of the arthritis disease which now has increased and having problems with my L2 & L3 .
It’s such a hard decision to decide surgery or not, but I certainly don’t wanna go through other back surgery but again, depending on how much I needed and how much it’s affecting me possibly will, but I’m just getting too old for this stuff lol