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Pro-Disc C5-C6 **Please help** Placement?
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08-31-2010, 12:36 PM
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Pro-Disc C5-C6 **Please help** Placement?
Is my disc in right? too small? forward?
At 4 months post op my neck pain is far worse then before surgery. Please help advise me.    
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C4-5: Mild disc height loss with central annular fissure. Small broad-based left paracentral disc protrusion. Moderate central canal stenosis-the disc protrusion abuts and mildly flattens the left ventral surface of the spinal canal. C5-6: Disc desiccation with mild height loss.Diffuse discosteophyte bulge and uncovertebral joint hypertrophy, moderate central canal stenosis- Severe neuroforaminal stenosis bilaterally, right greater than left. 
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09-01-2010, 12:52 AM
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It is what it is. It looks like the joint is functioning as the relative angle of the plates moves as expected with flexion/extension.
IMHO, if the pain us unchanged or the same pain is worse after surgery, the pain generator was somewhere else and looking at the implantation is a distraction. (no pun intended) What did C3-4 look like on MRI? discography? Your disc is not subsided. If it looks the same as it did in the interoperative or immediate post-op images, then it's not migrated. What were your symptoms like pre and post-op?
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1997 MVA 2000 L4-5 Microdiscectomy/laminotomy 2001 L5-S1 Micro-d/lami 2002 L4-S1 Charite' ADR - SUCCESS! 2009 C3-C4, C5-C6-C7, T1-T2 ProDisc-C Nova Summer 2009, more bad thoracic discs! Life After Surgery Website President: Global Patient Network, Inc. Founder: www.iSpine.org
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09-01-2010, 04:16 AM
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Have you tried facet injections at the C5-C6 level on the side your experiencing neck pain?
You listed C4-C5 as having some issues. Could that level have progressed and have become a pain generator? Is your neck pain at the side of your neck or lower down at the Levator or Trap area?
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09-01-2010, 01:18 PM
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Thank you everyone...
My C3-C4 had a small bulge/stenosis and is probally getting worse.. My C4-C5 is undoubtedly dessicated w/stenosis and getting worse. All my pain is in the back of my neck, I get more relief from mobic then percocet. My neuro here in delaware had NOT done alot of ADR's but since im only 30 he didnt want to fuse me. I have medicaid and could not get a 2 level. I have DDD in my low back also so i guess it is what it is. All your advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you my spine friends... Im going to post my full Neck MRI later today.
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C4-5: Mild disc height loss with central annular fissure. Small broad-based left paracentral disc protrusion. Moderate central canal stenosis-the disc protrusion abuts and mildly flattens the left ventral surface of the spinal canal. C5-6: Disc desiccation with mild height loss.Diffuse discosteophyte bulge and uncovertebral joint hypertrophy, moderate central canal stenosis- Severe neuroforaminal stenosis bilaterally, right greater than left.
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09-02-2010, 12:24 AM
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is your pain your pre-op pain or is it changed? did pre-op pains get better and these pains are new?
was discography done? Based on what you've said, it sounds like you needed a 2 or 3-level surgery and you got what the doctor could do instead of what he thought you needed???
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1997 MVA 2000 L4-5 Microdiscectomy/laminotomy 2001 L5-S1 Micro-d/lami 2002 L4-S1 Charite' ADR - SUCCESS! 2009 C3-C4, C5-C6-C7, T1-T2 ProDisc-C Nova Summer 2009, more bad thoracic discs! Life After Surgery Website President: Global Patient Network, Inc. Founder: www.iSpine.org
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