Hi, I have a similar problem @ L-3. The discs have ruptured ( looks like ribbons of toothpaste squirting out of a bubble). Sick yet? Ok , check to see if there are bulges of the disc toward your stomach. This is an anterior herniation/rupture. It may not all have gone forward, some like mine also go toward the wings of the vertibra; that is where the nerve roots are. The wings are called Latisimus Dorsi. They have plates that (articulate) with the vertibra above and below. Articulate = contact as a joint. If the vertibre are cocked and out of alignment or if you broke the vertibra there may be space there. That will be noted in the radiology report and your doctor would mention it: it would indicate serious problems; broken vertibra, or a pars fracture.
On the good side, if your disc went forward, pain occured but you didn't involve your spinal cord.......yet, if calcium builRAB up it could impead your spinal cord and cause permanent nerve damage, leg motor function could be involved. See not all that bad! Chin up! See specialists till they start making sense. Good luck. I would look into artifical disc replacements! Translating your report: you have disc bulges that are not yet imparing your nerves. Good thing!