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Need advise from community

I am a 36 yr male, and I started to experience a positional headache which is serve since February this year. I am currently admitted in Stanford Hospital and they diagnosed spontaneous CSF leak. They did a non targeted blood patch in March but it did not stop the leak. I was admitted again and did myelogram where the doctor located the leak site which is a T1 C7 intradural bone spur can be the cause of the tear. The surgeon scheduled cervical anterior discectomy and fusion 1 level and corpectomy 1 level for me which I don’t feel comfortable with. Since this is a very major surgery, I want to get a 2nd opinion from the community. And I wonder if there is any more conservative method I can do before going down this surgery route.

Shared experience, not medical advice.