[Maria]

Just wondering if you proceeded on to surgery. You may have written about it somewhere else if you have like under the surgical thread however the only thing I can add to your question was that at one time I was authorized to have a 2 level ADR during trials back in '03. That auth was pulled and later denied. Then I was auth'd to have a one level ADR and one level fusion (hybrid) surgery at a later date ('05/'06) and by this time I was feeling better so didn't have surgery. Believe it or not I think by this time my own body had finally done an autofusion on L5S1 (original injury back in early '80's).

However I'm told that my L5S1 can still be bothersome because there is some movement there. I'm sure there is some excuse for continued back pain (plenty) when it occurs as I have at least 3 lumbar levels involved in the last near 30 years.

Hope you've had some progress on your WC front and/or surgical/or getting better in the interim.