This happened to me too. Still hurts some, 10 months later. Here's my advice based on my experience. The injections of steroids into the spine did very little. Painkillers and physical therapy helped me get through the worst of it, but then it leveled off and didn't change for a while. A chiropractor was the missing link, and I improved rapidly after that. I'm still not 100%, but my disc rupture was very large, so it was an extreme case--I could not walk for a few days, even used a cane for a while. I'm back on the bike now.