I am a 57 year old female with a history of four back surgeries including fusion in the L-5, L-6 area. After 3 surgeries, including the fusion surgery, I saw a spinal surgeon in the Twin a Cities who, following a discogram, said my problem was several tears in the disk above my fusion. He recommended fusing all my disks together. I m not sure I would have done that but it was a moot point as my insurance changed and that doctor is now out of my network. I returned to my regular surgeon who tried removing my rods from the fusion...which helped somewhat but my spine still hurts almost more than I can take...can you help me. My surgeon says everyone has these tears in their disks and that they shouldn t be the reason for my pain. He has left me high and dry! HELP