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You may want to consider surgery sooner rather than later because not having discs to cushion and control movement of your vertebrae may make pain level higher. Spine injections are limited/temporary in pain relief and don’t work for everyone.

They used some of my own bone from decompression to use for fusion material between L3-L4 and L4-L5.

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dlydailyhope | @dlydailyhope | Aug 16 8:54am

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One last thing to consider. The longer spinal cord/nerves/nerve roots are compressed, the higher the chance for permanent injury. It took me several doctors and surgeons over 5 years to get properly diagnosed with my cervical spondylotic myelopathy (spinal cord flattening/compression injury) and even though I got ACDF surgery on C5-C6 in January 2022, I have some residual symptoms due to permanent injury of my cervical spinal cord (arm/hand weakness, etc.). That is why my surgeon wanted to do my ACDF surgery ASAP to stop further progression of the injury.

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