@januaryjane
You have degenerative cervical myelopathy from what you describe as symptoms all r having osteophyte complex affecting spinal cord. This is os a spinal cord compression injury. I have this and now have some permanent injury due to delayed diagnosis and surgery. I have a congenitally narrow spinal canal, osteophyte complexes, degenerative disc disease, etc. I have had 2 ACDF surgeries (c5-c6 in 2022 and c6-c7 in 2025).

You need to get the osteophyte complex removed to relieve pressure from your spinal cord. I had the same symptoms as you. Degenerative cervical myelopathy can cause weakness in shoulders/arms/hands that affects ability to lift things, write legibly, causes you to drop things and have grip issues, can affect walking/stability and feel like legs are heavy and also affect bladder (control and retention issues). I had other symptoms like daily headaches, tinnitus, facial numbness, knots in shoulder blades, neck/shoulder pain, and some radiculopathy nerve pain in arms due to nerve compression.