Surgery in the neck, when performed from the front, and patients only need one or two levels, is one of the most successful surgeries of all surgeries performed. What that means is after a patient typically has a herniated disc in the neck that ultimately they need surgery for, if years later they get another herniated disc.
It’s very common for them, even though they were initially very scared about surgery, to want to proceed to surgery very quickly simply because it’s usually a quick outpatient procedure with a high success rate.