I see a lot of folks with lumbago due to various pathologies. Unfortunately I cannot give you specific advice over the Internet.

I can, however, give you some good general advice about back and neck pain

1. Just because you see pathology on the MRI does not mean that is what is causing your pain. Much of that is incidental. If you pulled 1,000 people your age off of the street without any pain and imaged them from stem to stern you would find much of the same pathology.

2. Not all pains that shoot / radiate are neurological in etiology. Myofascial pain (pain emanating from muscles and tendons) are notorious for this.

I wish you a speedy recovery.