[Fortitudine]

Hi Molinda,
I have been investigating my options for a year and a half now. I have a compressed spinal cord at c3/4/5. Heard the same dire warnings. Local NS wanted to do a 3-level posterior fusion (not nice).
I freaked and started looking for alternatives. Also by that time it was 7 months after MRI and I felt just fine ( had been on a 7-day cycling trip in Europe). So kept looking.
Got other opinions - US doc recommended anterior discectomy at one level and acdf at other, Euro. doc recommended 2-level ADR. So it seems that either type of surgery should address the myelopathy.

Had another appt. with NS here 6 mo. after first, told him I had been considering ADR, felt fine, wasn't going for the 3-level fusion. This time his response was, "Come back in a year, maybe I'll have found an alternative"

I have pretty much figured that ADR is my best option. But haven't had it done yet.

If I were in your shoes, I'd get another couple of opinions, and hang around here for a while.

Good luck!