[laid up doc]

i also had the benefit of having had a disc denervation procedure (transdiscal biacuplasty) that worked very well until my disc was reinjured... leading to new symptoms that i learned at the time of surgery were due to the fact that part of my annulus was just destroyed, but not in a way that would show up on an MRI. my situation was a bit on the unusual side to say the least, but because the biacuplasty had worked so well, i knew that all of my really bad intractable pain was discogenic. the proof in the pudding was that the really awful ache was totally gone from the moment i woke up from surgery.

(and for the record, i endured a 2nd discogram to make sure that the same disc was the culprit before having surgery. as SW said, surgery is NOT a decision to be taken lightly!!!)

your situation is very different in that you have 2 nonconsecutive discs involved... that's rather unusual. i don't know of any surgeon that would fuse 2 nonconsecutive vertebrae, and i have never heard of any lumbar patient having 2 ADR's that weren't consecutive. this may be part of why the surgeons you have seen don't have much to offer you. add in your possible MS and well... it's very muddy in your waters.

so i have a few questions that may help you:
1. did they mention whether there were annular tears on your discogram? were they in any one direction? if so, does that line up with your pain at all?
2. was the pain you had during the discogram similar to your "typical" pain?
3. do you have a pain doctor at all? they're very good at identifying pain generators, and may help you decide if surgery would relieve your pain. as you may have noticed, there are more than a few folks who have had ADR and/or fusion who have failed to improve, many times due to inadequate identification of pain generator(s).