I too wish yu a full recovery.

My husband had a spinal laminectomy where they removed a disc that was mashed down for lack of the original term the doc used and a spacer was put it. He took about 2 weeks to stop taking the pain meds and just use ibuprophen and another 2 weeks before he stopped taking that. As I recall it was about 2 months before he was walking fairly well. That was with physical therapy 3 times a week. Don't know how close it is to herniated disc surgery but I think it fairly close.