I had the ablation on my lumbar and on my cervical. The lumbar lasted about a month for me before the pain came back. The cervical lasted about 6 months. They did a ViaDisk procedure on my L5/S1 where they injected live cadaver cells into the center of the disk hopefully causing the disk to regenerate itself. After that, my pain went from bad to unbelievable. The doctor said it was from the nerve being disrupted by the procedure and did some more shots to settle it down. No luck. They are now doing an MRI to see what the next steps might be. It could be fusion or a spinal cord stimulator. But something has to be done! I am in so much pain that I can’t walk any distance or do anything that requires movement. Bear in mind that I am fused from C3 to T1 and all but one of my lumbar are fused. I have severe spinal stenosis.
Good luck. I know that lots of people have had good luck with labations.