Toss out the canisters and go sump... life changing! Higher barrier to entry with the price tag and needing to have a drilled tank, but just cleaning out socks or pads instead of hauling out a full Fx6 or two is amazing. Also acrylic tanks over glass... muuuuuuuuuch lighter!
In my case the pain was in the L4/L5 S1, so the pain was in my lower back, it just was excruciating to sit, then it was more excruciating to stand so I went back to sitting more, then the pain starting going down my left leg to the point that I walked around like igor. Every morning it took me forever to get out of bed because that pain was so intense that your knees just involuntarily go weak. I was taking ibuprofen like candy, like 4 at a time 2-3 times a day. Taking muscle relaxers at double dosage and oxycodone just to function. Then one day it just got so bad that I could barely use the lower half of my body, I couldn't get out of bed at all... to get to the hospital I had to army crawl through the house and into the back of an SUV. The swelling of the discs was so bad that they had to take a substantial chunk out of one of my vertebrae just to get at it (apparently much more than they would usually take... 4 months after the surgery my doctor still remembers the specifics of my case without consulting his file).
I was told 6 weeks before I could return to work, I was back in a week (I work in IT so no heavy lifting), the reduction in pain was so profound that even with a 4 inch incision in my back and fresh out of surgery I was able to stop ALL pain medications and function fully again. Just have to be extra careful now when lifting things... keep it light and use proper lifting technique to reduce risk of re-herniating the remaining disc, which can be hard between a 2.5 year old daughter and fish tanks everywhere, but I do my best
