I just had the diep flap procedure seven days ago. It is one of the most painful things I have experienced but I’m slowly making progress and pain is better. I still need walker just to use restroom and my husband has to provide a lot of care. Takes about 6-8 weeks to recover. I’m so happy all went well and both my tummy and my breasts look good and natural. It’s like I got a full on tummy tuck, breast lift, and reduction. I prefer my boobs smaller and they were bigger before so this is better. So glad doctors were able to figure out how to give women new breasts after a double mastectomy
@maria it was a 10 hr surgery. They took me in at 7:30 am to surgery room and I was done around 5:30. Most people stay between 3-7 days in hospital depending on your recovery. I almost went home after five but they let me stay two more days for monitoring and to ensure I had bowel movement. I’m getting better. I can walk to bathroom on my own though I still hunch over. I’m 11 days post op. But I can walk without walker now and I can almost get in and out of bed on my own. Pain still present but not like before. I just use pain medicine at night. I have two drains now as Md took out two of them two days ago. I get one more taken out next week and the last one a week after that. I can’t wait. Getting those drained twice a day is a pain. Little by little.
i’m 24 and had this procedure 2 weeks ago. it’s been a difficult recovery but i’m a lot better now! i’m thankful my legs don’t hurt anymore everytime i walk.
Hi doctor how to find out mitral valve prolapse is mild or not in my report it has mitral valve prolapse- aml and in color flowing mapping section it has mitral reguration -trivial can you help
Thanks for the info , i have TB meningitis iam on my second month of treatment, could u please tell me is this normal to have usually worse fear anxiety and fast heartbeat shock while being in Tb medication treatment?
There is no spinal cord below L2. They avoid dural puncture by the loss of resistance technique. This is all explained very clearly in the video. Rewatch it.
i give birth to my son via cs delivery and he only lives 2 days and the main reason of his death is DIC, 2nd is sever persistent pulmonary hypertension and 3rd is meconium aspiration syndrome. it is so hard to lose a baby, now i am thinking if i ever get pregnant someday if my baby can have the same scenario. i am scared to lose my baby for the second time 😢
2014 I was told after mri scan i needed an op within 2 years as i had scar in my iliac artery, plaque build up. 2 years later a new consultant decided without doing any scan there was no scar and consultant 1 was wrong.Referred a cpl of times for scan but he refused to do it and used a different scanner. Up until March 2023 he still said nothing wrong, see a back specialist. Back specialist said i needed MRI . Got scan and new consultant put me on priority list for a bypass, my iliac still partly blocked and tummy artery blocked now..No date as yet but done all the tests apart from anethytist to see..Fingers crossed i get it done this year..Been a long painfull depressing time ..Keeping positive though.
Thank you for this. It has been discovered that I have narrowing of the vessels in the Circle of Willis. I have not yet seen the specialist, so am researching to educate and understand better the condition and the function of that area. I understand mine is hereditary and has come on early due to high BP. Is there anything that can be done to stop the progression of damage or prevention of stroke? Stroke is a very high risk in my genetics.
Fantastic video. Thank you for making it. I'm due to have a mechanical valve replacement soon. This has helped me understand the process, and I'm a doctor myself!
Thank you so much for this video, have poured over many paragraphs trying to understand this as a medstudent but your video with animations was the best thing 🙌 !!
Thank you so much for this video. I am having this done soon and it is good to visually see everything that occurs. You did a great job creating this content.
Hi Marcia - I would say the 2 procedures are equivalent in terms of the trauma associated with the incisions and exposure of the relevant organs, however, the gallbladder is very much an organ most of us can live without while a kidney is an essential organ. The good news is that most of us who are otherwise well can live with just one healthy kidney...
This was terrific. Question if you still happen to see comment: When the csf goes down the spine, does it return to the brain in a circular fashion of sorts, or does it return to the blood stream like it does in the brain? Thanks much.
Hi Carol - Even after more than a century of scientific study, the precise manner production, circulation and absorption of CSF is still debated amongst top researchers in the field. To your question, one thing that is currently agreed on is that CSF is a one way flow (unlike blood, which of course leaves and then returns to the heart), and Imis absorbed back into the bloodstream at various points including the arachnoid granulations , and possibly through the lymph system in the neck, as well as other mechanisms as yet unconfirmed. Because of the one way flow, the body must precisely balance both production and absorption in order to maintain CSF pressure within physiological levels. If you're interested in delving into the topic in more detail, here's a link to a fairly recent scientific article on the state of the art thinking regarding CSF. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057699/#:~:text=The%20CSF%20from%20the%20subarachnoid,through%20a%20pressure%2Ddependent%20gradient.
