Guest guest Posted June 21, 2008 Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 Hi , Thank you so much for your response. When you say the recovery time ws 5-6 weeks, were you out of work for that long or was it that long before you felt better? He has said I will probably be out of work for 4 weeks. I have heard from two other people that have had the cervical surgery and both have said that the " sore throat " they had after was the absolute worst and that it lasted quite a while. Did you feel the same way? D. from RI > > , > I had cervical surgery 3 years ago but I will not be having a > revision due to a heart problem. Dr. Lauerman told me I needed to > get the neck surgery done before any revision could be done because > of the way they place you on the surgery table. I had the neck > surgery and they did a decompression of most of the cervical disks. > He had planned to do a 2-level fusion but he did not because he felt > that the area was stable enough without it. The surgery pain was > more than I thought it would be but the recovery was done in 5-6 weeks. > in VA > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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