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1 It is also good to get a second opinion if the initial back surgery did not work and another surgery is being proposed. 2  This advice is especially true if it involves fusing further segments of the spine. 3  Often, if the initial fusion surgery does not work, further surgery will not be helpful.he surgeon interview. The best advice for a patient seeking another surgical opinion is to keep an open mind. You need to be as judgmental about the second opinion as for the first, and need to grill the second physician even further than the first. At a minimum, you should cover these topics with the surgeon:
I finally had an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at c5-c6 in november 2010. A lot of the pain went away in the arm but I still have constant pain in my neck and shoulder with occasional pain to the elbow. I have numbness in the arm and left hand with marked weakness.he patient has had an interval fusion of the C5-C6. There is some low attenuation signal artifact on T1 and T2-weighted imaging that presumably relates to the presence of a metallic plate and screws. There is a very slight anterior angular deformity.