Since I sincerely believe I cannot rely upon my Primary Care (VA) Doctor, I have been very desperately and diligently reading everything here that other people post. I am hoping so much to perhaps find help with and/or suggestions to ease this horrible, unrelenting pain. Pain is literally ruling my life.
My Doctor will not give me muscle relaxers or any kind of pain pill (even after receiving the results of my MRI), and he is also very against over-the-counter (or any kind) of Ibuprofen. He says it is useless for pain, anyway. He did tell me that my lower back pain will eventually all resolve itself. He insists that I just have to give it time to go away on its own. I just don't know. I have listed above the word-for-word results of my MRI, but I have no idea how to read it or interpret it. He himself received the results and told me, "Nothing to worry about." Here are the results again, to save anyone interested from having to "back-track".:

L1-L2: No significant disc bulge. No spinal canal stenosis or neuroforaminal narrowing.

L3-L4: Diffuse disc bulge with superimposed right subarticular zone disc extrusion, with approximately 11 mm caudal migration of disc material.
There is bilateral facet arthropathy and facet effusions. There is spinal canal stenosis, primarily secondary to disc bulge. There is narrowing of the lateral recesses bilaterally, with abutment of the descending right L4 nerve roots.
There is severe right neural foraminal narrowing.

L4-L5: Broad-based disc bulge. There is moderate bilateral facet arthropathy. There is moderate right neural foraminal narrowing.

L5-S1: Broad-based disc bulge.. Moderate bilateral facet arthropathy with facet effusions bilaterally. Moderate bilateral neural foraminal narrowing, greater the right.

S1-S2: Broad-based disc bulge. Severe bilateral facet arthropathy, with a left facet effusion. Extraforaminal synovial cysts are noted to project anterolaterally from the left facet joint, with significant encroachment upon the exiting nerve roots. There is an additional small synovial cyst projecting inferiorly from the facet joint. Mild right and moderate left neural foraminal narrowing.

END OF MRI RESULTS