I have a friend that had your same surgery that you are contemplating. He asked his Neurosurgeon about me and the doctor said he would not do surgery on me because I did not have Siatica. He commented that he does not do surgery on people that have back pain only as that apparently means that there is no nerve damage. Nerve damage seems to be the metric used for surgery. The considerations are loss of feeling and muscle atrophy that can cause loss of use of a limb.
