Yes, it hurt unbelievably - as a fellow RN, you will understand when I say the pain from my lower back into my R leg was such that I honestly wondered if I had a dissecting aneurysm! Calmed myself down enough to realize I had good pulses in the leg and eventually foot, once I could move enough to check them! OMG! I ended up having a TLIF surgery, with fixation and fusion at multiple levels. They did remove the cyst sac. I knew my back was in bad shape but my neck was bothering me more and ironically was scheduled for neck ACDF so they did my back instead since I “conveniently” had the OR slot, plans for my animals already made, etc. <G> Had the neck done 6 weeks later! Even managed to get in my week scheduled Caribbean vacation between surgeries, since I was a month postop back wise, allowed to be in ocean! :>)