Andy I'm another, L4/L5 bulging disk due to years of sailing (I used to race on keelboats) and ballroom dancing - lifting partners.
As with you the pain never stopped day or night and just got worse, eventually excruciating. Persevered to the point I had to use all fours to climb stairs and couldn't step over a curb. Keyhole surgery fixed it successfully, in 2000. 18 years later... no pain, my back is 95% but lifting anything >15kg is forbidden.
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