@agee3003 I understand that your MRI results have given you more questions than answers and a second MRI was suggested which is a standard response when a test is inconclusive. From your posts, it seems you have improved a lot and you’ve described lifting heavy boxes with poor ergonomics. That may get you in trouble with your back in the future. You could learn a lot from a physical therapist about this on how not to cause an injury from habits.

Other members here can only share their experiences and what they know from their conditions, but cannot interpret your results. That takes the skill of many years of medical training, and as you know, your providers have not been able to give you definitive results. If another member were to make a diagnosis for you, that post would be removed by the moderators because it is against the community guidelines.

There is a lot to learn from what other members share. Medicine isn’t always straight forward and sometimes conditions are diagnosed by excluding things with similar symptoms. There are also anomalies even though anatomy follows a general pattern. For examples, nerves or arteries could be in different places from what they are in most of the population, etc.

I remember a doctor telling me that I wouldn’t want him to find anything wrong with his testing. He was a cardiologist and I was under a lot of stress and having chest pains. That was good advice and he was right. My dad was a heart patient and I worried about that, and my results showed no issues.

I hope that can help you ease your mind. It sounds like you are recovering from the muscular issues which is very good news.