Clinically, a large number of studies have concluded that most patients have significant postoperative pain relief, but symptoms may be recurrent and some numbness may remain, but the overall efficacy of the surgery is still reliable.$ relief is fast and obvious, but numbness may occur, and numbness in general may be relieved more slowly. (Why is there numbness? Pain and numbness are both manifestations of nerve stimulation, but preoperatively the pain is often sharp and the numbness is masked, but after surgery the pain improves quickly and the numbness improves slowly, so the numbness shows up after surgery. Of course there is a more esoteric neurobiological explanation for this, which may be difficult for the average person to understand.)$ but to a lesser extent than before surgery, and can usually be gradually relieved. (Why? This is a characteristic of general tissue damage repair, nerve tissue after surgery will generally have a process of edema, just like our ankle sprained, at that time may not feel the pain is not so intense, swelling is not so serious, and after a night may be more serious swelling, and even appear petechiae, the same nerve tissue after surgery, generally about 1 week may be more obvious edema, so the symptoms are repeated But as the edema slowly subsides, the symptoms will gradually ease.) People may still have many questions, first why the symptoms can not be completely relieved? Current medical research suggests that the possible causes are probably the following. (1) Long-term compression of the nerve root has caused irreversible chronic pathological changes, which are simply likened to the bumps formed when a tree is twisted by a wire. Therefore, the physician may recommend that you operate at the right time to avoid the chronic irreversible pathological changes caused by nerve compression. (2) Postoperative scar formation around the nerve root and tissue scar repair at the decompression site after surgery, resulting in adhesions between the nerve root and the surrounding tissue. Although there are many approaches to reduce local scar formation, the results are less than satisfactory. It is currently believed that early leg raising exercises can help prevent and reduce local scar adhesions. Second: Since these problems still exist after surgery, is there no point in surgery? The answer is no. symptoms to be relieved, but often the symptoms recur again within a short period of time, and there are some patients for whom non-surgical treatment is ineffective; Second: Surgery is also safe at present, and the incidence of complications is lower, with a much smaller chance of paralysis and inability to walk. Third: If it is a huge protrusion and there is damage to the cauda equina nerve, then it is still recommended that you have surgery as soon as possible to avoid incontinence, which can seriously affect your quality of life. Finally, in your case, whether you should have surgery or conservative treatment requires full communication with your doctor (so that he or she can fully understand your discomfort and the impact on your current work life, as well as your treatment needs). You should also actively participate in your treatment instead of leaving the choice of treatment to your doctor or refusing the surgery.