Hi Reen, welcome. Sorry you are here, but I hope we can help. When you can, pls search the forums for the doc's name -- you'll find many topics there. You can PM the people in those topics.
Forgive the curious question: what are you doing to help your body heal? I ask because your doctor may have given you some advice that could be interpreted as being false: some people in this community have seen:
- tiny annular fractures that have caused great pain and disability that never healed, until they had surgery;
- huge, unsequestered herniations that have healed with
exercise, juicing and dietary changes.
So, you see, there are many extremes. In the midst of all this confusion, we are here to try to help you. I hope we can!