@livininthestix

Thanks for your comments. You are absolutely right that finding a surgeon to even acknowledge you have an issue, diagnose the problem and agree to operate is near impossible. Over the past year I went to my neurosurgeon who did my original C5-6 fusion 8 years ago, and 3 other top rated neurosurgeons, even flew to Chicago from FL to Northwestern Memorial, and no one wanted to touch repairing and stabilizing a past fusion (which never fused) and clean up bone spurs and clear an impinged nerve, or even offer a guess of what my problem is. I was shocked that I could be in so much debilitating pain and I could barely get a diagnosis. One surgeon said, "well, you may have a torn ligament in your neck". What, after a year of pain, living on the sofa, and it gets worse every month??