Degenerative Disc Disease

Hello. I was wondering if anyone here has D.D.D., hence the title.I was diagnosed with it about a year and a half ago. In the summer of 2009, I was helping my husband move our then 8 year old son's bedroom around. As I lifted one end of the bed, I heard and felt something pop in my lower back (my husband heard it too!) It was a little uncomfortable but not really painful........yet. The next morning when we woke to get ready for work, I could not move an inch. The pain was completely unbearable, unlike any pain I'd ever felt before. It wasn't just in my lower back, but just all in the middle part of my body in the backside instead of the front. I screamed and cried in pain, almost paralyzed bc any movement whatsoever made it worse. it took nearly an hour to slide myself off the bed, then another half hour for my husband to finally get me to my feet, which I could not stay on very long. I got in to see my family doctor later that day. By then, it was much better. She ran X-rays, that showed nothing, gave me something for pain, and made me an appt with neurosurgeon. I saw him bout a week later and since things were better, there was nothing he could do, but send me back home after telling me to call him if it happened again. So 3-4 weeks later, it happened again. I called. They got me right in. Had an MRI done and found 2 bulging discs in my lower back. I had had some minor pain from my left buttock all the way to my toes. it was more burning and tingling than anything else. The doctor gave me a Medrol pk
9steroids for the inflammation) to take. He then told me I had the D.D.D. So I tried to be very careful in lifting things bc I did NOT want to ever experience that terrible pain again. When I had my oldest child my labor was induced. I had what i thought was the worst pain ever in this world.......until all of this happened lol. I'm a wuss, I can't help it. i just don't handle much pain very well. But anyway, In early Spring of last year it started up again, so the doctor offered to let me try the pain managements shots that they give. The first one I had was absolute Heaven! It worked wonders. The next month i went back for the second shot. it was not as successful. In fact, it had a reverse outcome. So after having another MRI and talking with the doctor, he told me that the disc had torn, yet again, and the filling that came out of it had touched my spinal cord. All he could do was go in by surgery and pull the fluid away from my spine, so I said "Please do it soon!" The surgery was May 5, 2010. It took me months to move like a normal person again. Was doing good til a couple months ago. Having a lot of nerve pain again in the same area as before, some days worse than others. Had to call the neurosurgeon again a few weeks ago to get another Predisone Rx. So, I know this is not going to get any better as I get older. i just wanna know if anyone here has the same problem I do and where they are at with their own situation so i kinda have an idea of what to expect in my case. thanks!!!