help needed! opinions?

Hi! I am scheduled for bunion surgery may 8th but am having doubts/worries due to this subreddit. A lot of people have negative experiences and I am discouraged to even go through with it. For context, I am 18 and have bunions on both feet, the left is barely there tho and causes no pain. My right one is significantly worse and causes me pain. My podiatrist also said I now have 2 hammer toes from it. Recently it has been worse since college has me walking a lot and I am getting weird pains that feel very sore that shoot across my foot from the bunion up towards my ankle region. But usually the pain only occurs when walking more than 10-15 mins, this pain is sore and near the bunion itself not my whole foot, and I am thinking I should go through with surgery because I have discomfort and don’t really wanna wait for it to be miserable since I have my life ahead of me. I’ll be free and doing nothing this summer but I am very scared seeing the amount of fails/ complications on this sub. Any advice or personal stories? I am getting an austin bunionectomy by the way.