Hello and welcome.
If I could wave my magic wand, I would find a pain mgt doc or interventional radiologist for you -- to extract a small sample from the disc nucleus and use PCR and culturing to screen for microbial infection. Your diagnosis is unusual, but it could suggest a pathology that involves lesion or infection.
Pls see this multipage topic on this subject:
http://www.adrsupport.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9218
And note this credible study on how many patients benefited from antibiotics:
http://www.adrsupport.org/forums/sho...tibiotic+study
But could it be simply an annular tear? Maybe. See:
http://www.chirogeek.com/IDD%20Page/IDD.html
If it’s an annular tear, fixes such as fibrin have been used to “cement” and seal the annular fissure.