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Re: Today I am another year older and a question 

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (2)
Fri, 11 Dec 20 7:42 PM | 34 view(s)
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Thanks for the response De!

In meantime I have called and made appointment with the best spine and brain Institute in the Midwest, Mayfield Clinic. I have an appointment not until January 7 to get started but if anything comes open before then they will call me... A cancellation by someone else could easily happen..

The more I have thought abou this the more pizzed I get when a surgeon I know and who removed that 10 cm synovial cyst from my spine a year and a half ago just remains so tight lipped and seemingly not interested in getting to the bottom and sharing the information. I like him as a surgeon. he does great work. But he ain't much in communication.

Mayfield assured me they would get to the bottom of the trouble and identify exactly the cause of the sciatic pain and numbing of my left thigh and explain everything in detail before ever discussing solutions to those problems. They also said they see this same thing every week so they are extremely experienced in this.

Hoping to find out what is cause and what recommended cure there is available...

Second opinion is now in works...

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Re: Today I am another year older and a question
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 11 Dec 20 4:11 PM 		Msg. 09766 of 60008

micro:

Re: “SHOULD I go get a second opinion say at the Mayfield CLinic and see if their worldclass spine docs can actually find what is causing the tingling and numbness in my left thigh? I appreciate your comments as I consider many of you to be intelligent and wise .”I think patients should ALWAYS get second opinions before surgery. Even minor surgery with general anesthesia can kill ya. Remember Joan Rivers?? Killed by surgery for acid reflux. Seemingly minor but wound up just as dead as if they'd been doing something incredibly dangerous.

Before my surgery, I went so far as to select a primary cardiologist outside of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical system so I could also ask him his opinion of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and his opinion of my surgeon and get an honest response. (He had a high opinion of both, but did say D-H isn't on the same level as, say, the Cleveland Clinic - which might interest you since you're in Ohio.) I remember when my sister needed eye surgery, Kaiser Permanente in California told her that they would only cover the cost of a second opinion if she got it from a second doctor on their payroll. That is NOT a second opinion - but it sounds like you're well aware of that.

Surgery is a serious thing. You shouldn't proceed with it until alternatives have been explored. You definitely shouldn't have it done until someone outside of your medical system has confirmed that surgery is required and that you're getting the RIGHT surgery.

It's your body and life, after all. Look out for it by making sure your doctors are doing the best they can for it and not for their own convenience and bank accounts.

Is there any wisdom to this response? Probably not much. Why would anyone ever suggest not getting a quality second opinion about something so impactful??

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