Thank you for your quick response.
I apologize for the confusion, let me try to clarify as best I can. According to my surgeon, “Everything is where it should be.” At the 5th month mark, upon giving me just an x-ray, he said that I (the graft) was 85% fused, I did not mean to use the word “healed”. At that rate, I, not the surgeon, made the assumption that I should be 100% fused by now. I assumed this because, mathematically, that’s 17% a month. Therefore, I thought by the 6th month I should be completely fused. 3 months later for my scheduled check up, my surgeon gives me another x-ray and says that the fusion is now at 90%. That was only 5% in 3 months which concerns me. Does that mean the fusing has stopped, slowed down, or there’s just no way to tell yet until a certain time has gone by? From what I’ve heard/read, if you don’t fuse 100% then you have to have a revision which I’m scared to face.
I do have some pain in my traps and mild to moderate tightness on the sides of my head above my ears. Occasionally, I get head pains, not aches per say, on the crown of my head but it was considerably worse prior to the surgery. It does feel like I’m healing at an extremely slow rate but I don’t appear to be getting worse. It would also appear that have most/all my neck motion back.
