I know that feeling. At times you could feel "ok". At other times, you tell yourself "who am I really kidding here? This isn't going to be better by itself...".
I am about your age, was able to return to work ~3 weeks after surgery. That's also when I stopped all pain medication. I probably could have returned at 2 weeks, but I still had quite a few symptoms and was eating the pain killers, so it would not have been very pleasurable to return to work then. My work is not physical. If you have a physical work, you should probably wait 6 weeks. You can read my outcome at the surgical outcome forum.
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2015 Lost ability to sit
2016 Gradually worsening despite conservative treatment
2016 L4-L5, L5-S1 activ L success!
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