So what are the symptoms that you have of the nerve damage and how do you control the pain or the symptoms? I'm thinking maybe I should have my surgery before my nerve compression gets worse and my nerves get more damaged. Do you have any thoughts about that or recommendations? I just had an epidural injection two days ago I don't know if that's going to really help anything. They say I have to wait up to 2 weeks to see if it has any effect.