@januaryjane Yes, I did have surgery with a fusion of C5/C6. There was a disc osteophyte complex pressing into my spinal cord (bone spurs and ruptured disc). The surgery relieved all the symptoms I had and resolved all the spine related pain. I asked for a fusion without hardware, so I stayed in a neck brace for 3 months until it fused. They used bone bank bone which is just the mineral matrix that is left after the cells are cleaned out if it. If I did not have this surgery, I would have some level of disability. I could see how fast my symptoms were changing, so it was a good choice to fix this before permanent damage occurred.