Success rates and trade offs – what are your expectations

[Maria]

That'd be a difficult call. If it's looking like I'm going to have significant damage (permanent) by waiting that might make me think seriously that I should have the surgery but that would have been before my failed L4 percutaneous discectomy.

Now I'd be hard pressed to do anything without any symptoms and being completely pain free and not limited in any manner in terms of activity.

Again, it's going to depend on the number of surgeons consulted and what they say with regard to actual necessity for surgical intervention (weighted with what I feel like doing now). Is this something that is going to save me from spinal devastation?

I just don't know what I would do...