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So here’s the deal. For months, my legs were killing me, and my doctor just kept insisting it was all in my head. Said I was imagining things. Finally, when the pain got so unbearable I could barely move—even though I looked fine on the outside—I went to see a private neurologist. He tried to tell me it was psychosomatic too, until he ran a General Electric test that showed moderate chronic radicular lesions at L5 on the right and S1 on both sides. A CT scan confirmed it: there's a slight disc bulge at the L5-S1 level. Has anyone dealt with this? How do you even treat this, and how long does it take? This thing has completely wrecked my life. I basically lost an entire year of college because of this leg pain, and now I'm getting tingles and feeling like my right arm and leg are just going to drop off. I hit the gym regularly for push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups, so I'm wondering if that caused this and if I have to quit training altogether. I've got a follow-up with the neurologist next week, so please, let me know if you've been through this.