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I'm feeling enough angst and pain this morning due to 40 yrs of Sciatic nerve damage from hysterectomy in the 80's...I've had some years of relief but have been in a flair for a couple miserable years.
And the major nerve damage from hip replacement, right side of body is sore and pretty dead.
And believe nerve damage from knee arthroscopy clean out a couple yrs ago.
3 types of surgeries in my life and plenty of damage.
If one escapes nerve damage due to surgeries they are very fortunate.
I don't have personal experience with any of the above, but the two people I know closely who have had hysterectomies (both 10+ years ago) said they were the best thing they ever did, and they should have done them sooner. But their lives were pretty miserable with such heavy bleeding from fibroids that they were almost unable to leave the house. Now one is busy hiking the Pacific Coast Trail (at age 67) and the other (age 63) is working 12-hour shifts as a nurse. So for them, it was clearly the right choice.
What would have happened if you hadn't had the hysterectomy, or the hip replacement? It's inevitable that some nerves are going to be cut during a major surgery. The question is whether the alternative is bearable or not.
Are you sure it wasn't caused by the tubal ligation after your hysterectomy?
Only thing I'm sure of is Sciatic Nerve damage from the 80's surgery and 7 days in hospital due to high fever that would not break. Went home when it finally broke as I broke down in tears.
I don't have personal experience with any of the above, but the two people I know closely who have had hysterectomies (both 10+ years ago) said they were the best thing they ever did, and they should have done them sooner. But their lives were pretty miserable with such heavy bleeding from fibroids that they were almost unable to leave the house. Now one is busy hiking the Pacific Coast Trail (at age 67) and the other (age 63) is working 12-hour shifts as a nurse. So for them, it was clearly the right choice.
What would have happened if you hadn't had the hysterectomy, or the hip replacement? It's inevitable that some nerves are going to be cut during a major surgery. The question is whether the alternative is bearable or not.
Nerve damages are a major complications from so many surgeries, that's all I'm sayin.
Complications from surgery are well known, it's no secret, and that is why patients are told the risks and benefits of surgery and must sign a consent form.
I had major surgery in the 70s and even back then was told there could be complications, which is just common sense. After all, they're cutting you open and removing parts of your body...what could go wrong? You'd have to be pretty dense to think every surgery is guaranteed to fix you right up and cause no other damage in the process. No surgeon gives that guarantee.
If you need surgery, you have the choice to do it or not. No one puts a gun to your head.
Reject the conventional medical system based on dangerous and unnecessary (yet profitable) surgeries, drugs, vaccines, etc., etc. blah blah blah. "Ask yourself" before "asking your doctor"..
Reject the conventional medical system based on dangerous and unnecessary (yet profitable) surgeries, drugs, vaccines, etc., etc. blah blah blah. "Ask yourself" before "asking your doctor"..
I'm learning but did the surgeries at the times in my life when I thought this was what needed to be done. I hope hope hope no more.
Complications from surgery are well known, it's no secret, and that is why patients are told the risks and benefits of surgery and must sign a consent form.
If you need surgery, you have the choice to do it or not. No one puts a gun to your head.
All true. When the outcome isn't what a person hoped it may be easier to blame someone for wrongdoing than to wrap their head around the concept of unhappy chance or unrealistic expectation. You have to prove wrongdoing, but some people don't bother. They've been victimized and that's all that matters. Get a lot of mileage out of it.
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