went to my ortho doctor today...

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and I am thinking it went well... He showed me on my Cspine MRI

where the arthritis is pushing on my nerves and explained that is

why I am in so much pain. He explained that they do not like to do

fusion once somebody has already had it, but that if the pain can

not be resolved that is a solution. Told me they would fuse me from

C4-C7 and remove the discs and add metal plates ( might be wrong

terminology) and I explained to him about my concerns about

flatback - he looked back (I have not seen him in 3 years) and was

like oh I did diagnose you with Flatback (but, I believe this was

before he too newer xrays and determined I did not_.... Anyway, plan

of action is to go to Pain Mgmt clinic for Cervical Epidurals and

see how that does for me. If the pain is still too much then I will

go back and now I will have new xrays to see if I do have flatback

and indeed need more surgery than just the Cspine surgery...

Although I felt he was a little slow to the old info - I did feel

like it was more of a problem with his staff and not him.

So, that is where I am now.... Any input as always is great!