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I dont have references right now but I have continually heard that long term studies have proven that knee (which I have also had that made things worse) and ba
by hestipod 9y ago
I dont have references right now but I have continually heard that long term studies have proven that knee (which I have also had that made things worse) and back surgeries (those two common ones have been extensively studied) show no overall improvement in pain years on compared to those who skipped surgery. In fact it is often worse and precipitates new issues.
Surgery is a huge cash cow in the US. The ones that are my only option, but am terrified to have given the past, and dont have the stability or money for would cost something like 25,000usd minimum per foot in this country and take 6 months to a year each to recover from with high complication/failure rates AND are likely to exacerbate the RSD. I am guessing based on previous experience it would be maybe 10-15% of that in Poland where I lived before and got excellent care...and that is paying full cash private prices there. I dont want more surgery at all but I can't live like this either. This is what they did to me and the lack of options they left me with.
*@astura has linked some in this thread
- TallGuyShort 9y agoIt's almost like there's a closely related cash cow incentivized to keep people in worsening chronic pain such that they need pain killers or something.
- hestipod 9y agoI have been down that road too and spent years in total heavily medicated with various things that just cost me a ton and added more problems. I was usually treated as if my side effects were attempts to get something "better" when I just wanted something that worked and didn't screw me up more. Getting off of them was a nightmare as well and I ended up in the hospital once after seizures. The benefits were always outweighed by the costs.