I had a disk event about 13 years ago, and yah--it takes months to get through. The course was pretty up and down too; I'd feel a bit better then have a set back pushing a grocery cart or something else mundane. All the sciatica, tingling, numbness could come and go and defied all my attempts to figure out what helped and what made it worse.

Hang in there, keep up the good work, and you'll get better.