Cervical arthritis and Scleroderma

Hello everyone, I was just diagnosed with cervical arthritis that involve several bulging discs . The rheumatologist who originally diagnosed my CREST said it’s pretty bad. He quickly’s wants me to set up a consultation for surgery. I told him to slow it down. (I really wanted to tell him to slow down your horse cowboy 🤠 ha!) I must maintain a sense of humor through all this madness. I did tell him that I will go for the consultation but I’m not just going jump in to surgery without some research . It really is bothering me and it’s probably worse than my Raynaud and that has been really bad . It’s just interesting that both rheumatologists (I’m seeing another one that is a scleroderma specialist)both said that back pain is not associated with scleroderma at all ! After reading many articles it seems some people with scleroderma suffer with the bulging discs/cervical issues. If anyone can offer some advice or have gone through any surgery dealing with bulging discs please let me know your experience. Thanks all :).