Facing 2 Level Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement vs Fusion

[Maria]

Hey Sue,
My foot healed well finally.. took a long time! I did have an aggravation or flare up of my posterior tibial tendonitis once I started walking without the air cam brace .. in fact once the doctor pronounced the fracture healed in my left foot and said I was Ok to go about my usual business brace free I sort of went full force back into walking a lot and that brought about my bilateral ankle flare up again. I have had to hire a dog walker to walk Lola several times a day these last few weeks. I walk her every morning but she is a handful with her walks and she wants to go and go in the morning sometimes for an hour. I try to give her that because she will soon be not walking much once the weather heats up even in the high 60's or the sun is warm... she gets out of breath with her CHF and/or just tuckered out and tries to avoid the sun.

I do hope eventually that feeling in your upper back and shoulder blades will resolve and leave you feeling better! Glad to hear your visit went well. take good care now!

[Poncho]

Hi Maria,

I'm glad to see that your foot healed.

I can't believe that I have been off here this long. Well, December 5th 2016 is when I had my 2 level c-spine Mobi-C ADR and I'm doing okay. Keeping fingers crossed. I do get pings down my arm from time to time, but definitely not as bad as before surgery. I hope posting this can help someone out there.

[fuzzy]

Again another year later I am still walking on my 3 adrs for over 11 years and am actually quite active these days. Bertagnoli caused me some c5 root pain and constant cramping in my upper shoulder left to this days and years of uncertainty and remaining neuropathies and mean “phantom pain” which I am managing with high dose pot. Finally baumbach conceded on my 10 year anniversary of his diagnosis that I should start rehabilitation, work out. I had not looked at weights for 20 years but knew its a way to get fit. Last time I would constantly hurt my spine. Took 2 years and now am better then I was then! I can feel Active-L in my spine all the time. So far so good. The fusion hybrid worked great. I hope lumbar adr doesn’t break. So far so good.