Fusion failure (4 years post op)

Helllloooo. Just stumbled onto this thread while googling around about my symptoms but I was wondering if anyone here has experienced something similar and can point me towards a solution (because my surgeon is doing fuck all)

I was in a head on car collision almost 4 years ago and broke the vertebrae at C5/C6 and C6/C7 so they did an anterior fusion to fix it in the ICU. Took ~2 months to “heal” at which point the surgeon said you’re fine have a nice life, if something bothers you let us know.

Well, I had a baby last year and almost immediately postpartum I started having issues. My arms and hands would fall asleep EVERY night and wake me up because they’d be in pain and stiff. At first I thought it was “mommy wrist” carpal tunnel type stuff and even got cortisone injections in my wrists which seemed to help. But it started flaring up again on and off as I got closer to 1 year PP and now it’s every single night and has been since October (roughly 11 months pp to currently 16 months pp) It’s even starting to creep into my daily life too, like when holding my baby or trying to unscrew a jar.

I have done X rays, and MRI, and a bone spec CT scan. The general conclusion is my fusion never fully fused 🙃 and one screw might be loosening. They want to do another CT scan to confirm that I guess.

My surgeon has said that there isn’t much they can do. They can’t fix the screw. They can’t fix the fusion. They can only go in the back and add more hardware or use a bone stimulating machine to try to get the fusion to fill.

Does that seem right?? Google (which I don’t take too seriously, because Google…) says there should be a way to surgically fix a fusion that didn’t take but am I wrong?

It’s driving me insane. I haven’t slept well in almost 3 months now and not even because I’m a new mom lol (he’s an angel and sleeps 12 hours without a peep unless he’s sick hah)

TIA 💕