Question: hi dr grief, 2 mornings ago i got out of bed and when I went to go put my left leg down to walk out of my room I collapsed because the pain was doing put any pressure on my leg. I immediately started crying because of the pain and couldn't make it up my first half of the stairs. I didn't do anything to enjoy it and it the pain went my left lower hip, all the way down to my ankle. I could not put any pressure on my leg or even walk for about an hour. It finally started letting up about an hour later but I could feel pain starting to radiate across my lower back. I can walk now and I thought everything was okay until yesterday I could steal some pain in my thigh on the outside of it the samethigh, the same pain that I felt that morning just not as intense. Now it is 230 in the morning almost 3 days later and I'm having a hard time walking because of how cramped up my calf feels. Do you know of any reason why this could have happened? and do I need to try to make an appointment with my doctor who said when I called that the referral from my insurance wouldn't go through a second time so they can not see me until monday? ive had surgery on my lower back in 2010 but I don't feel that this has to do with it because I know the difference in the pain. Please help me thank you-XXXXXX

thank you, i had a lumbar spinal fusion done and they took out a disc that was disintegrating and supposedly replaced it with an artificial one then fused it together with titanium rods when i was 22 i can attach a doc once my battery is charged on my phone