I'm glad you got some relief! I've been...less lucky...I had a microdiscectomy at L3/4 many moons ago and got amazing relief from completely disabling sciatica. However that disc kinda disintegrated over the next 15 years. I had L3-4 fused in 2016 but I was too hard on it and developed more sciatica, but it stemmed from L4/5 instead. I had a spinal cord stimulator implanted in late 2020, which helped some, but I then had a decompression surgery about 18 mos ago, but I felt immediately worse, like I was still in the recovery room and I told them I had MORE numbness and MORE paralysis. I think it was a spinal epidural hematoma, but they didn't treat me for it right away. About 6 weeks later, I had the same decompression surgery again. That helped for about a month. This past June I had L4-5 fused. Unrelated to my back problems, I have a nerve condition that causes cold burning in my feet (like diabetic nerve pain, but w/o the diabetes) so this stimulator targets the feet specifically by targeting the S1 nerve roots. I like to say I'm 47 going on 74. I've also had 12 knee surgeries w/one joint replacement and that's sadly not even the end of the list LOL