That’s interesting that you don’t have worse leg pain. It seems like there should be plenty of nerve root impingement. Is that what they think is causing the hip pain? I guess it doesn’t totally matter. They try to do the best surgery that they think will help your pain, and that’s really the gauge of how bad things are, and if surgery is successful.
Mine started out as lower leg pain only. I had never had back pain and had no idea what was wrong with my leg. Now it’s progressed to sharp pain in both legs, and mixed types of pain in my lower back. I never knew I had scoliosis either, which makes me wonder if it developed over time, as an adult. The doctors I’ve talked to don’t seem to know if it has been there since childhood, or developed along with the rest of the degeneration. My neurosurgeon said it’s focused, or whatever it’s called, at l4-l5, which seems suspicious since that’s where all the action is.