28 yo, looks like surgery

I've been dealing with back pain for years, but recently (December 2024) OTC pain meds stopped working completely. Started seeing my chiropractor again in January, immediately was referred to get X-rays. X-rays showed degenerative disc disease, disc space narrowing at L4/L5 and L5/S1. A trip to New Zealand in February with all of the sitting (14 hr flights, lots of time in the car, etc) exacerbated my issues to the point where I now have excruciating pain and numbness running from my low back/hip/butt down my left leg and into my foot. Until I was recently put on Meloxicam (after three separate urgent care visits over three weeks with various medications) the only thing that helped me sleep through the night was high strength edibles that I made myself (between 50 and 100mg each dose). I had an MRI last Thursday which revealed L4/L5 is herniated and L5/S1 is also herniated. In addition, I have an annular tear, facet joint arthropathy, nerve root impingement, degenerative changes, foraminal space narrowing, etc. I am waiting to be referred for a surgical consultation via my primary care physician. I am only 28 years old. I've heard of people making astounding recoveries after surgery, but typically I only hear them talking about disc herniation. With so many issues happening in and around my spine, I'm wondering if anyone else has/had similar issues and how your recovery is going. How did your surgical consultation and surgery go? Any questions I should be asking the surgeon? TIA