what it looks like
My eye is very untrained but it does look like your upper cervical levels are twisted or torqued and whether they were that way before the ADR placement or not may make a difference as well in terms of feeling worse post operatively as you state.
You mentioned you're medicaid and one level was done while possibly 3 levels had problems. Did your surgeon want to address the worse level and hope the two above would get relief (wondering if you were told this)?
Seems like the ADR is tilted and the disc space jacked up but that's just to me which means nothing except if I saw this on my own films I'd think maybe that was increasing the probs/pain in the levels that weren't treated and are kind of messed up.
ADRseeker has a colorful way of explaining things which while makes sense seems a bit harsh to me however does seem to make sense re what the chiropractor friend explained.
You mentioned you're on medicaid. Did you have HMO insurance that refers you to certain specialist or were you able to choose the specialist on your own? I'm just wondering about this in terms of follow up type of care re your insurance. Insurance limitations can really do a number on the type of followup and limitations we as patients are dealt.
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