re waiting and not waiting..
I waited 7 years between my first diagnosis and my first discectomy but back then (1989) there really weren't that many options out there. Now I wish I had waited a longer period of time for my 2nd surgery as that was nearly 2 years later on the disc above and it failed miserably. And I was like you with periods of getting better and periods of exacerbation. In hindsight tho probably surgical technique could have been better or it was just the *newness* of the percutaneous discectomy procedure. Of course one's own bodily reaction has to do with the equation as well.
Should you wait or should you not? Is this a repetative thing that keeps happening and you lose work time over it? When I made the decision for my first discectomy it was because my back was going out every 2 months and out of that time I'd spend nearly a month in bed. That was it, my decision was definate. That surgery was successful...
Good luck, I like to get several surgical opinions at least
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