Thank you for the advice. It is complicated for me. With confirmed rotary subluxation ; prolapsed and diseased disk at c5/c6 with a buckled interspinous ligament at this level. Also buckled ligament flavum with a benign bone growth at c6 left facet.
So for me to have screw fixation which i was offered 4 years ago didn’t
seem a releastic option with the base of my neck fairly weak. More symptoms come from my mastoid area especially with flexion and extension with limited rotation. Question – would the pros out way the cons with screw fixation at c1/c2 with buckled lower neck and more importantly a very hyper mobile occiput ?
Not being able to run without projectile vomiting and severe muscle guarding and not being able to extend my neck now for 4 years since secondary tare on exercise ball i can only deduce that i also have instability of occiput as well. Lost 2 stone in weight. couldn’t walk for 2 months ; flat face ; stridor ; tinnitus and a world of pain that i have never experienced before.
4 years later and thousands of hours of rehab i’m still unable to do the basic things like look up. Surely in my posistion full C0 -C7 would be fusion would be more sensible than Co – C2 fixation ?
