I heartily echo the above responses. I would also suggest asking your doc to define "healing"--as I understand it (and what seems to have happened with me), the herniated material may resorb but disks don't heal in the sense of getting back to "normal," pre-injury status. Therefore, is your doc predicting that with resorption your symptoms will abate? be resolved? --And have other problems been ruled out? From my own post-MVA experience, my doctors got so focused on my extruded disk, it took my insistence for them to finally diagnose and surgically correct injuries to my wrist and shoulders.
Please keep us posted.
Barbara
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2001 MVA; C5-C6 disk extruded
ongoing physical therapy, exercise and massage
ESI's, oral prednisone, trigger point injections
foraminal and central stenosis C5/C6 and c6/C7
2007 EMG/nerve conduction shows pattern of chronic radiculopathy
January, 2008: Prestige ST Artificial Disk Replacement, C5/6
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