Elaine,
What does your doctor suggest you have done with the cysts?? Cysts can still come back; I would think draining them would help relieve some of the pressure. I had several cysts in an out of my lumbar vertebra removed along with spinal fusion/laminectomy.

From what I read, it appears, thank God, that you do not have significant spinal cord narrowing. I did need to have a wide laminectomy at L4-5 with the fusion. Even tho the worst part of the narrowing of the spinal cord has been removed (the lamina covering spinal cord); I continue to have spinal stenosis in the rest of the spinal cord.

I do take daily opioid meds for the continuing spinal pain/stenosis, along with dealing with PN.

Gerry