Thigh pain, weakness with DDD, stenosis, scoliosis, arthr, osteopenia

In 2018 I had a 2 level cage in my neck in 2. My neck did very well, coming lost movement in my right are which prompted the surgery, I haven’t had any problems with my neck, but for the last couple of years, I do get twins of pain and stiffness here and there.
In 2019 I have three level cage in my S1, L5 and L4, which I had a horrible time recovering I think because the anesthesia that that’s surpassed took me about a year to get rid of the pain so I was like pain-free for maybe being one to two years, then things started happening again pain so forth so I my handle that and now to the present I have severe degeneration disease on my L2NL3, which causes a thigh, pain, weakness, and my legs and of course, the pain in the spine area which I’m dealing with now along with a Baker’s cyst in my right knee a lot of pain behind the knee and with the cyst swells I get severe pain from my thigh down to my ankle like in my bones I made it is gosh, awful painful and I usually get that at night if I overuse my leg during the day so I’m going through that but I do go with physical therapy, that said it usually takes about 8 weeks to recover from, he also gave me exercise exercises to keep my knee flexible and so forth and the exercise really does help so maybe talk to a PT and only wants me up and walking for 15 minutes at a time, I have figured out a routine and will add on as we go but for right now I have to be careful to not aggravate that Baker cyst ( as well as my lower back issues, no when to stop) I know it’s difficult but you only have like two sets maybe 10 to 20 repetitions and if you can do that, keep up with it because it’s very important to keep moving and keep building on the muscles that you might be weak in, so I’m 73 years old and getting old is a hard thing to do, but if I can get past this or to a point where I’m not having to limit as much things as I do have to now , I feel I’ll be doing pretty good . I wish you good luck on your journey and I hope everything works out and you find some relief.

@wkh
I have this. What does your lumbar MRI show? Did you also have a cervical spine MRI done? Cervical spine issues can affects legs, too. Did you have a MRI of your hips/pelvis and legs to check for soft tissue injuries/damage? Have you had an EMG/nerve conduction study of lower limbs to see if there is radicilopathy/nerve compression?

I was told my leg pain was due to spinal stenosis/neurogenic claudication from my compressed L4-L5 especially so I had surgery to decompress and fuse L3-L5. It helped relieve a lot of the pain. My hip/pelvis MRI showed that I have bilateral gluteal tendinopathy and bilateral partial hamstring tears which added to the pain/weakness. PT is supposed to help but I still have some symptoms. I may need surgery to repair the tendons at some point in the future.

My lower back has every issue in the book. 3 surgeries, every injection, years of ablations. Pain was straight across the hips with stabbing pain in left hip that wrapped around the front of the thigh and down to my left ankle.
I was insistent that my left hip was failing as it also has a good amount of arthritis. I was wrong. I had a permanent spinal stimulator implanted Nov.24 and it provided a minimum 80% pain relief. The pain was from my back. My knees are arthritic with torn meniscus’s. I still feel that pain. Still feel minor discomfort from the left hip arthritis which is felt in the groin.
Had my right hip replaced Nov. of 22. I still will get a jolt of pain on occasion.
The spinal stimulator is life changing for someone like myself that has had chronic moderate to acute pain for over 40 years.

Wow, I didn’t know about those other tests. I had MRI’s in my neck and spine in 2018 and going to have another one soon for my lower back.
I had a 2 level cage in my cervical spine, and a three level in my lumbar spine lower back and now I have in my lower spine at L2 & L3. so I guess I’ll see what’s going on after my MRI on my lower.

I had my HFX spinal cord stimulator implanted New Year's Eve 2024. It's helping with the pain quite a bit. I'm still working with the AI app daily and increasing the stimulation as necessary.
It's a constant working together system to hit the "sweet spot" for pain tolerance. It's not a cure though. But certainly helps.