5 Weeks Post Op Discectomy

I’m 5 weeks postop from a 2nd L4 L5 discectomy in two months because the first one reherniated. Recently, I lowered my dose of gabapentin from 3 to 1 per day as I thought I was doing great! However, my nerve pain returned and now I’m confused. Is my increased pain due to the decrease of medication or is something wrong again? I increased my gabapentin back to 3 a day and as long as it’s in my system, my pain level is “ok”. I’m still very diligent to not do too much and to
follow my surgeons instructions. Also, a big concern of mine is, when I’m feeling good on the gabapentin, is it invoking a sense of wellbeing hence I do too much while still being cautious, aggregating the healing nerve and surrounding tissues, muscles, etc? Actually, that is why I reduced my dose because I wanted to feel what was naturally going on. Thoughts?
Sorry if I’m not explaining it well. Thank you 😊.