Dont do the fucking surgery, Doctor will fuck u up for life! Go threw the pain, it will be ook within 2 3 4 years...body heal.
My experience is that since the medical system I the states is what it is all doctors recommend surgery bcz its generate money. In my country, Sweden, doctors never talk about surgery...bcz we have a different heath insurance system. And in most cases a doctor isn't really involved with back neck problem, u get to se a physic therapist...and all of them is against surgery, bcz they know body fix it with time...