I absolutely suggest that you find a good MFR therapist and have a few area specific treatments and get some assistance determining the origin of your pain. Is it scar tissue? Is it myofascial muscular? Is it impinged nerves? After a few treatments you will be able to determine if it’s nerve related or something else. At the same time I’d make sure that I was visiting some orthopedic doctors who look at your structure to make sure there is no disc compression or nerve root impingement and they could also send you to an EMT, which is a nerve doctor. The nerve doctor triggers nerves to determine where the damage might be. So first what you need to figure out is if the pain is telling you that you have some issue that needs to be dealt with before you create a consequence with exercising. My pain was really bad. But what I did was find a place where I could start where I had no pain and work from there. So for example, 30 seconds on the exercise bike or 30 seconds of walking good then you move to a minute then you move to five minutes to thirty minutes to an hour hour and a half when I was around thirty to sixty minutes I noticed the pain was starting to diminish at night and while I sleep and while I Exercise. sometimes the pain comes back a little, but I noticed how it’s correlated to some bad eating habit or some bad barometric weather change (fog and humidity and marine layer really put me in a bad way.) . If you can get into a rehab program, which Medicare covers, I don’t know how old you are. That is a good place to start because they monitor you and you report to them and tell them if something they are doing causes you pain. They are also a way to determine and narrow your focus. I have left rehab after 30 years of dealing with many companies and many issues because I could do it on my own much more effectively and the rehab places. The people got younger less experienced less helpful and they actually caused me more pain and stiffness. Don’t handover your intuition and your trust to anyone. Make sure you stay involved in your own self-care. To this day, I’m not very comfortable with the opioid, but I really have no choice. I would behave like a vegetable without it. Although I don’t feel addicted because there are times I can go without it if the moon, the sun, and the stars align along with the barometric pressure.:-) a gentle walk is always my favorite, however even that this past year was painful as the outer part of my leg below the knee and below started incurring lots of nerve pain that eventually grew from my sciatic down to my big toe. Most of that has been temporarily resolved with adding an hour a day of gentle cycling to my walk in the morning and my walk at the end of the day. It’s just what has to be in my life no matter how many other things I have to do. The time I need to invest in movement/exercise reduces the time I have for other interests and obligations. It just takes priority in order for me to lead my best life. I’m walking the dog so if my grammar isn’t perfect and I didn’t cover something. Just let me know! And thanks for your question.