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another deep breath..........

and oh poo. not happy Jan.

A couple of months ago, I had an op. on my left hand.
Nerve specialist did a heap of cattle prod tests and pronounced guyons canal needs sorting out as it has damaged the ulnar nerve.

[guyons canal is very similar to carpal tunnel]

Strange- I could have sworn it was a dodgy funnybone thingo playing up- but , hey- they are the experts- so what would I know....

In to hospital, surgeon opens up my left wrist and cuts guyons tendon thingy.
2 months later, absolutely no improvement.

Another batch of cattle prod tests this morning, this time they say.....carpal tunnel AND ulnar nerve [funnybone] are the problem.

So now the surgeon will need to re-open the wrist, cut the carpal tendon whatsit, and open up the inside of my elbow, peel back the skin and move the ulnar nerve [funnybone nerve] to the inside of my elbow.

Funnily enough, I did a simple google of the symptoms before seeing the quacks, and read that in the USA, the surgeons will commonly do the carpal and guyons tendons in the one operation + scrape out a bit of guyons related bone at the same time for more clearance, doing all these at the same time as the three bits are easy to do together.
As a bonus- and while you are out for the count- they do the ulnar nerve relocation at the same time [ the elbow skinning bit]

I mentioned the USA approach of doing it all in one hit to the locals, and they were horrified.......here it would be 4 operations, with umpteen visits to G.P. for referrals to specialists for tests, x rays, ultrasounds and MRI's.

I'm over this...

Doctors can be funny. I have had a minor pain for the last 10 years or so. I went to a few doctors over the years to see if they could find out what it was, but none could and the best I got told was to take some pain killers. Great...

I decided again to investigate it at the end of last year, and finally someone found what was causing it.

I was then referred to a surgeon who had never seen this problem, so I got on the web and tracked down someone who has. What do you know, 'yes, I know what you have, here it is on the ultrasound, and I treat them all the time'.

If I hadn't persevered, nothing would have been done about it. I do feel fortunate though that I have been able to afford to follow it up, as without any money to pay for different scans and consultations and so on, there is no way it would have been resolved.

My approach these days is that if the doctor isn't able to explain what he is going to do, I ask more questions. If he can't or won't answer them, I go somewhere else if I can.

Funny bone: you didn't mean this one, right ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum

My advise: Stay away from the knife at all cost. Try every tree hugging hippy new age remedy before the knife.

FlySurfer said...
My advise: Stay away from the knife at all cost. Try every tree hugging hippy new age remedy before the knife.

My advice: Find a doctor you believe in, and don't rely on some new-age guesses if your life is at stake. In practical terms, look at the evidence available and see which has the most likely cures.

Sometimes I am amazed at the way some people look at how our body works and link up all sorts of magical stuff, that sound cool, but don't sit with the hard facts that we are just biological machines.

Righto, I am off for a bit of a walk with some other people in a different dimension in Nimbin. There seem to be a lot more dimensions up there for some reason