zFontana, thanks for the update. I hope the soreness you feel now is just from the procedure and that it will fade in the days/weeks to come.
BTW, a client of mine with a 3-level ProDisc 7.5 years ago also had an ablation. This was his 2nd round of them. The first was successful, but improvement faded after more than a year. His recovery from the ablations was trivial... his were not performed endoscopically. As he has already seen that the results are temporary, hence the 2nd round.
I hope that your improvement will be permanent. As I understand it, the reason to do it surgically instead of just with a needle procedure is because they can remove a secton of the nerve instead of just 'slicing' it. With that approach, they should not grow back.
Please keep us posted. Especially in just a few days... I really hope that your pain is just from the procedure now!!!
All the best,
Mark
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