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Thank you so much for responding.
My neurosurgery appt is in two weeks. Is that too long? I don't know how quickly this will do something worse.
How did the ACDF surgery go? I'm looking it up.
Thanks again.
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The ACDF surgery is anterior cervical (front of neck) discectomy and fusion. It was not too bad. My lumbar surgery was much more painful. They remove any bone spurs and damaged disc pressing on your spinal cord/any nerve roots and replace it with a sort of cement to help fuse the levels together. They put in hardware to help support the fusion. I don’t even know it’s there.
Cervical myelopathy can affect your bladder and bowel. It causes bladder control issues for me. Dizziness and balance issues, too. It also caused daily headaches which went away after the surgery. My walking and handwriting also improved. I stopped dropping things all the time due to weak arms/hands.
Two weeks is not too bad. Just be really careful not to fall. I fell twice before I knew I had myelopathy (1st time I broke my right foot when I fell while walking on a flat surface).