[Ozphysician]

Hi Futurerobot

It's a fair point and that's where Im at right now. My life has been seriously modified and at 45 years old I think I should be doing more but perhaps Im greedy. The risks [as with any surgery] are high and I could end up worse off. That has probably kept me from doing anything just yet. I must admit as a doctor I have seen patient scans far worse than mine who are asymptomatic, in fact I had a patient who's scans I kept on file that showed severe facet arthritis with encroachment into the foraminal space, three severely narrowed and dessicated disks and he could perform full flexion and extension pain free ! His pain was from an aneurysm pressing on the vagus nerve, hence the scan

Being a doctor I look at my scans and start freaking out - doctors make the worst patients