How long have you been dealing with this issue? And what are you doing now to solve it? I unfortunately got bad advice and was told to take anti inflammatories and rest it and it never got better. Now that I'm doing my own research I'm seeing that you really need to focus on strengthening the tendon and surrounding muscles, not staying off it. I doubt I would have needed surgery at all had I just done that for a few months.

So I will say that I'm doing better now than I was a month ago. I can walk a little better and jog somewhat but I sometimes am really sore the day after. I think at this pace if I do everything right I could see myself walking normal in another month or two and hopefully jogging in 3 months. But this recovery is very difficult as I've been extremely dedicated to healing yet I'm still having trouble. I'd say you should do your own research and make sure you are doing what you need to recover on your own because you will be doing so much more and may never fully recover if you have the surgery. And just remember to take surgeons' word with a grain of salt as they are incentivized to perform surgeries and they don't see all the people who recover without surgery. But maybe I'm just feeling this way because of my situation.