Thanks Harrison--sorry that I'm going to be "out of the club" now. I'm just so depressed. I'm only 32, and this just feels like the beginning of the end. With all the adjacent segment damage potential, and the fact that my other discs are already having issues, I feel like it's just going to be a daisy chain of fusions by the time I'm 40. Even if I can get an ADR approved in the future, we know hybrid surgeries are not really validated. I feel like I'm permanently screwed (literally, I'll have instrumentation with my fusion). Plus the protracted ACDF recovery and the hard cervical collar for 6 weeks straight that I am not looking forward to don't help. I'm just so upset 
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33-year-old female
C3/4 Disc bulge and bone spurs
C4/5 Disc protrusion
C5/6 Disc extrusion with cord compression, bone spurs due to uncovertebral arthropathy, right foraminal stenosis and bilateral nerve compression.
C6/7 disc protrusion
Lost appeals for ADR. C5-6 ACDF on 3/10/16
ACDF never fused, and ACDF accelerated damage of the other levels. Someone please kill me.
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