Hi, thankyou for all your replies.

Think I forgot to mention above that my GP had read out my results wrong from his PC. I went to see the Ortho consultant about my results before I had the injection. He said there is a large protrusion and it is def compressing the nerve root, quite badly infact! There is also some acute endplate something or other. He said that basically the way the disc was displaced it was nudging against the end plate and denting it. He said he wanted to operate. My chiropracter knows the consultant and says he's one of the best and he actually turns away over a third of people and sends them back to their GP without operating, so only operates when he deems it 100% necessary. The chiro also said that there is a high success rate with surgery where the disc protrusion protrudes into the lateral recess (I'm sure he said recess, but it was def lateral something or other) but conversely a low success rate with the steroid injections. 3 days now and the analgesic they injected into my spine is starting to wear off, so waiting to see if the steroid kicks in and helps now.

Thanks everyone for all your replies.