At the second bottom joint in your neck there is a rupture towards the left back side of your disk that is pressing on your spinal cord as well as the root which is a branch running off the spinal cord out of the neural foramina, and out into your body


"APdiameter of the cord is 7.9 mm. This is consistent with acquired spinal stenosis."

This means the diameter of your spinal cord from the front to the back is 7.9 mm in diameter they seem to think this is a bit narrow spinal stenosis is narrowing of the spinal canal.







"Minimal degenerative changes of the disc at C6-C7"


This usually means some narrowing or drying out of the disk has occurred, this is the bottom joint in your neck.







"Reversal of cervical lordosis is also seen."


This means the curve in your neck is the wrong way instead of being convex to the front and concave at the back it is the other way around.





"Is this serious??"

That a difficult question, what do you think, i would say its potentially serious at least. its possible that in time it will deteriorate all so your age is important


Good luck Carol112231

If there is displacement of your spinal cord, it may or may not be a serious problem. The key is to see a spine surgeon as soon as possible and have a doctor determine the seriousness of your spine issues.

An MRI is only part of the tools used in diagnosing a patient and the images need to be matched to the patients symptoms to properly diagnose the patient.

The fact that you are having spinal symptoms and an MRI was ordered, indicates that there was concern enough to find out what was going on.

Beyond that, none of us here are in a position to diagnose you or tell you how serious the results are of your MRI and the issues you are having. None of us are doctors.

Best to see a spine surgeon ASAP for your answers.

Good luck

Fran

Herniated Cervical Discs; When discs bulge, they cause pain if they press on the nerve. With my husband, the Dr said, the discs will eventually disintegrate which is good and bad. It's bad because you will then have bone on bone, it's good because the pain you have will subside for however long it takes for the arthritic spurs to form and stab the nerve again. Neurosurgeon told him to wait until he could no longer stand it before surgery. Eight years later (Jan 0 the spurs were stabbing so bad that pain killers didn't cut it (and he was on many many mind killing pain killers) I was worried I had lost him mentally and he sat in a chair all day in pain. Finally I asked him, do you still feel the pain under the pain killers or do the pain killers really take the pain away. He said the pain killers just messed him up enough that he didn't care about the pain. I told him that he needed to ween off the pain killers, see how bad it was, and he ended up with cervical disc replacement and fusion. He cannot believe he waited so long! The surgery turned out great! The process of getting there was horrible. I would recommend going to a neurologist not a surgeon to start off with.

I wish you the best.