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[|Human|] Hello , I need help in deciding what type doctor to see. I have very bad low back pain , i have not been able to work for 6 months. My general practitioner says I should be fine to work. I cannot bend over without sometimes pain that will make me freeze. I cannot sleep more than 3 or 4 hours, I cannot sit very long , walking at a slow pace i can do. Standing still would not be good either. My mri looks to me like 5 vertibrae out of alignment with a bulging disc . My left leg has been numb for a year. Sometimes my right leg gets numb also, thats the reason I quit working since i am always on a ladder. I am seeing now a Physical Medicine Doctor, he is scheduling steroid shots in both hips. Please Help
[|AI|]  Hellowelcome to Chat Doctor, as per the details u have been submitted, it seems that you're having chronic LBA with disc protrusion or herniation leading to compression of your nerve roots.i.e called RADICULOPATHY .that's why you are experiencing numbness and burning pain into your leg.so before going to steroid shots from a physical medicine specialist I advise you to a ORTHOPEDIC IAN/SPINAL SURGEON and get done the following tests1. STRAIGHT LEG RAISING TESTS AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, IT WILL BE DONE BY A ORTHOPEDIC DOCTOR2. GET DONE MRI OF YOUR LS-SPINE AFTER AN MRI OF LS -SPINE YOU WILL BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY.90% OF DISC PROBLEMS CAN BE CURED BY GIVING REST TO LS SPINE BY LS SPINE BELT AND PHYSIOTHERAPY......... HOPE THIS WILL HELP U A LOT, IF U NEED ANY FURTHER INFO...GET BACK TO ME...