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I had a pretty bad one in my cervical spine. It was compressing a nerve causing occasional shooting pain down my arm, numbness in my fingers, and muscle weakness. The doctor said I needed surgery ASAP or the nerve could be damaged permanently. These days it can be done with microsurgery, they only made an incision about an inch long on my back and didn't even use sutures to close up, they literally just super-glued it back together. It was outpatient, I went home just a few hours later, and my throat hurt more from the anesthesia tube than my back did from the surgery.