Katie, sorry to hear of your troubles. This site is a good resource for support and opinions. ADR seems to have excellent results, especially for us cervies, so hopefully that will enable you to return to work at some point. Dual level ADR's aren't approved yet but you may have the option of taking care of the worst one now and then wait on the other until the FDA approves the procedure.
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Originally Posted by rhatzy
Kate,
Will you be getting one or two ADRs? If you have two bulging discs, you might want to get them both done. Also what disc are you looking at? Prestige and prodisc are the two that are approved in the US and there are more out there with my preference being the M6. However, whichever it is should give you good results.
Mark
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Mark, the Bryan disc is also approved for use in the US now.
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DDD C5/6. Incorrectly diagnosed as tension headaches in September 1997.
Nearly continuous headache since.
Began having pain in wrists in 2000, believed it was onset of carpal tunnel.
In 2005 pain began getting worse.
Diagnosed as DDD in July 2007.
Surgery recommended after 6weeks of PT made the pain worse.
ADR scheduled for Jan 26, 2009. Rescheduled for August 5!
Bryan disc finally FDA approved, and just in time too.
Neck was all jacked up and had to be fused unfortunately.
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