I do. I used to work in radiology. I’m certain those bulges are causing your incontinence, and that it’s likely permanent. You must be in excruciating pain? That is also likely permanent. As bulges go, yours are quite large and significant. I hope there’s a surgery they can do to help. You could end up experiencing numbness in all limbs, and fecal incontinence. Sciatica is definitely from these bulges. I’m so, so sorry.
A few of us here have something similar, including me. I started with bulging discs in all of my lumbar spine (after falling down a cliff snowboarding), then all the discs ended up rupturing. I no longer have any disc material remaining, so my lumbar vertebrae are bone-on-bone. They told me my only surgical option was to have a rod inserted down the full length of my spine. But they wanted to wait a couple of years to see if my spine might fuse by itself, which is what has happened. Supposedly that’s better than the metal rod option. But now that my lumbar spine has fused by itself, it’s curving to the left by 17°, also known as scoliosis. All of that took five years to evolve and has reached some degree of stability - Lol, stable meaning urinary incontinence (worst at night), sciatica at night, and constant pain. I fell down the cliff when I was only 35.
I know it all sounds alarming right now, but you will find tips and tricks to help you live with it, gradually.
