I had steroid shots every three months for several years trying to put off the surgery. if you are diabetic or prediabetic they make that problem go insane. I was on double insulin for two weeks after every shot. the diabetes got worse and the shots were no longer an option. the leg pain was gone afterward along with most of the lower back pain, of course the surgical site was painful until the healing was over. nobody can tell someone else what will happen if surgery is necessary just because of what happened to them. sometimes the pain overrides everything else and you just say lets do it and hope for the best.