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Originally Posted by Beckel
Thanks Gator and it does make a lot of sense about the bone spurs getting larger. So if it actually came to the point of another surgery, they would go in from the back, correct? I didn't have this pain before surgery and if the conditions were present then, I wonder why? Maybe because they have gotten larger. You say you've had two surgeries, were they both ACDF?
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Yes both ACDF. I had a mal/non union of C5-6, and C6-7 went bad so they had to go back in and redo C5-6 and then do C6-7. I too had an osteophytic bar that grew on C5-6 and it was spearing the nerve root so that was removed during the second surgery. They would ONLY go through the back if they wanted to leave that disc. That is IF they even consider it surgical at the moment.
