Connie, I am so sorry you are dealing with this, also. I will update after my appointment. By any chance were you on Prolia? I was for four years and then came off.

I had a cervical corpectomy (ACCF - anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion) where surgeons used a synthetic cage to replace one of my vertebra. The device failed. I sued the surgeons and university and device mfr. Over litigation, we learned the cage was labeled "contraindicated for cervical implantation" also that the surgeons were paid over $150M by the device mfr. Many of these devices are labeled as "non-cervical systems" for use in the back, but the actual physical size and shape match those only found in the neck. The FDA botched the approval of these devices, allowing many of the mfrs to label them for bogus uses in the back when they are only sold and used in the neck. Why? To avoid having to subject them to clinical testing since FDA's own documents (now deleted) show they have never approved such a device thru validated clinical data. So I encourage you all to find out what the devices used are actually labeled for and to ask your doctor if the labeling actually matches the design rationale. Big sham.