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Old 07-25-2014, 06:48 PM
atxmom atxmom is offline
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Originally Posted by hobbes1212 View Post
Why do they think you will likely have an increase in pain after surgery?
They said there was no guarantee that the surgery (ADR or fusion) would relieve my current pain. There is also protrusion on C6-67 that is not part of the fusion. Additional pressure on this disc from fusing 3 levels above could cause pain. There would also be stiffness from multilevel fusion.
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C3-4 5mm protrusion; cord contact
C4-5 3mm protrusion; cord contact
C5-6 3mm protrusion; Retrolisthesis 3mm; cord contact
C6-7 2mm protrusion; no cord contact

Waiting for 1st surgery
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