My backs been hurting for 3 years now!!! please help please?

i have the SAME EXACT PROBLEM. mri showed a bulging disk that is pinching a nerve in my lower back. That gives me severe lower back pain along with hip pain and some leg/foot pain on my left side. I've been going to physical therapy & chiropractors for almost 3 years and, although it feels better for the moment, it has gotten substantially worse. That's sciatica. I just read last week that, if you have sciatica, physical therapy will only make it worse. google sciatica and sciatica excercise and try what it says. so far, my hip has been ok. i'm only 26 and can't believe i feel like an old woman!!!! good luck and feel better!