Jess,
Think about your quality of life now with so much pain and also what your future holds without surgery. I wasn't in much pain and still opted for surgery because Dr. Lenke convinced me that I needed it for a quality of life in my later years. Fusion to the sacrum is nothing like I feared it would be. There are many of us fused to the sacrum that ski, dance, golf, play tennis, kayak, etc.