Hang in there Rusty
Hello Liz and Rusty,
I notice you haven't received any feedback, so thought I would get your thread back to the top  . Fellow cervies should be back home so maybe you'll get more answers soon. Let us know how things are going and what you decide to do.
It's a bummer that the FDA approves a procedure and then the insurance companies don't pay. Did you contact Synthes about ProDisc-C surgeons?
Here's to a Happy and Healthy New Year. 
Sandy
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**Accidents, active life-style, always some back/neck pain controlled w/ibuphrofen
2004 excessive pain, x-ray, PT, MRI diagnosis cervical DDD
**PM recommended, meds, PT, massage therapy, chiropractor, injections
**Dec. 2007 numbness and weakness in left arm/thumb, x-rays, MRI, discs at C4-7 pushing on spinal cord, fusion or ADR out of country
**April 7, 2008, discogram at C3-4, surgery 4 levels, Prodisc-C, Dr. Bertagnoli, Germany
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