At 27 it's vital to take the right path. No surgeon will operate unnecessarily, well, not in the UK anyway. I doubt it's still offered, but DON'T have the heat treatment in the core. It can stop pain, and indeed stabilize the disc, but only for a while. What it does do is stop the disc ever being a live and functioning part again.
You do need to know if any of the disc's soft core has protruded into critical areas. This can not be done with X-rays of the old type. (with Tomography it might, I don't know. ) However, MRI shows it quite well.
Lots of rest...Horizontal. Gentle traction if advised. Every effort to avoid inflammation. That's the big enemy. Inflammation will cause all sorts of spurious data to be sent back to the ganglia / brain. This in turn will put out corrective muscle control that is quite simply wrong.
Keep us advised.