Are you unable to manage your pain or do you have incontinence?
I just read a German study which suggests that the majority of back surgeries are redundant. Mainly because it is extremely difficult to positively determine what specifically is causing the back pain and surgery quite often does not relieve the symptoms. The study goes on to state that surgery should only be done if pain becomes intolerable and/or there is bowel/bladder involvement.
This s exactly the same thing I heard from my orthopaedic surgeon last year (who was up on the latest studies and medical developments) after I had an Achilles rupture. His words "I would not authorize you to have spinal surgery for the sole reason of relieving pain as we still do not know exactly what causes the pain and more often than not the surgery either fails to relieve pain or causes different pain."
Makes me question my decision for an ADR. 
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2011 - onset of lower back pain during hot yoga
2011 - 2013 Treated with massages, chiro and physio - pain getting progressively worse
2013 - Xrays normal
Dec 2013 - MRI showed moderate DDD @ L5/S1 - modic type 1 endplate changes - remaining disks well preserved 
Jun 2014 - became patient at Caleo clinic
Jan 2015 - first consult with surgeon
May 3, 2016 - L5/S1 - M6 - ADR in Canada (Calgary, Alberta)
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