6 months ago I had a cervical corpectomy and 3 level fusion C5,6 and 7. I never felt full pain relief and continued to have pain in neck, shoulders, shoulder blades and arm numbing. I was continually told all looked good on films. 2 months ago the surgeon sent me to a PT, she did manual traction on my neck, the next day my arm pain returned, full arm numbing and I have been going downhill ever since. I was sent for new xrays, new MRI and catscan. The MRI to my amazement said that I had numerous protruding disks and central and paracentral herniated disks at the very same levels I had the corpectomy on c5,6 and 7. It also said that I had severe stenosis at c6-7 and this is what I had before the surgery. It said it saw no definite spinal cord compression (my cord was flattened before sugery) and that the exam was limited due to susceptibility artifact at the vertebral levels and that there was perforamnce of a previous fusion at c5,6 and 7. Now the surgeon is telling me that the fusion did not heal and that he needs to perform another surgery thru the back of my neck to place rods in there as I have micromotion. Then he said that while he is in there he will make the opening bigger at c6-7 to free the nerve that is entrapped there?? I asked him how I could have all these herniations at the same levels and he did not answer me straight on, he said that sometimes it is hard for MRI to differentiate bone spur from bad disk? The fact that I still have severe stenosis on MRI 8/05, surgery 3/05, does this mean that he failed to address all levels of stenosis? why herniated disks?