[annapurna]

First, Bertagnoli would only tell you to live with it if you think you can. The German mindset is to look at the whole life of the patient. If you think you can live with it, he'll tell you that surgery is at the patient's option. If you tell him that you can't live with it, he'll go forward with what can be done. He might not offer a surgery if you don't present strongly enough to figure out what's causing your pain but that's not telling you to live with it, that's saying he doesn't know what to fix. If that happens, there's a neurologist in Munich that's a wizard who might be able to help.

Second, I'd hold out at least two weeks to hear something.