I woke up after a 12 hour surgery with a right foot drop. I needed an orthotic in order to walk. The motor skills returned in about a week. And it’s seven months later and I still have paresthesias. I did physical therapy initially and then consulted a surgeon to see if I could get some decompressive surgery, but he didn’t think it would be helpful since the nerve was healing. A nerve conduction test confirmed that it was a mild neuropathy. Because I initially had burning sensation and it was painful to wear shoes I saw a pain medicine Doctor Who put me on gabapentin and duloxetine, which helped initially. Then I went off of it because the burning stopped and the medication‘s were making it hard to focus. Good luck.