My visit to the pain control Doc yielded the cause of my horrific ongoing back an leg pain. I was fused from t6 to S2 on June 21, 2013. I had a left thoracic curve of 17 degrees and a right lumbar curve of 33 degrees in an adult onset Arthritis. After several rears of stability, my back began a rapid descent. I lost control of my bowels and was in some really bad pain from the waist down. My feet were especially painful. Four months post op most of the pain in the surgery area has subsided, but I still need pain meds because of pain running downy the upside of my right leg. I have a horrifically painful spot on the back of my left hip. Feels like I am being burned with a hot poker. I am also feeling the pain of my moderately damaged left hip. Could this be the result of the twisting force of my scoli? How long must you wait after a fusion surgery to have a hip replacement or SI joint fix? I feel like I am playing whack a mole with the pain, here!