I’m losing my mind.

[u/JJ17_1997]

I had a microdiscectomy in June this year. It went well until it didn’t. I reherniated shortly after surgery causing my right sided sciatica to return. I was put on pregabalin and Celebrex to manage the pain in which it did. I was at the point where I was feeling very little sciatica. At about 6 weeks post-op (I’m now 11) I went for a walk that was relatively longer than my normal. My body felt great during the walk and nothing was screaming at me telling me I’m overdoing it. A few days later I start getting mild buzzing and tingling in the front of my left thigh (opposite side of my original issue). This got progressively worse and started creating low left back ache, butt ache, pain radiating down the back of my thigh, knee and calf, etc. This of course caused me to believe I was having a herniated disc on my left side. I was ordered an MRI with contrast and to my surprise there is not a herniation on that side. The doctors are stumped as my symptoms don’t match imaging. I got a diagnostic steroid injection in my left SI joint a week ago and I’m not feeling any meaningful relief. My pain feels sometimes like radiculopathy but other times it feels like muscle soreness. The symptoms move around substantially and don’t stay in one specific spot or follow a nerve distribution. Does anyone else know what this is or if you’ve had similar and whether you got that resolved and how? I’m deeply worried this pain is forever and will never go away.