Posted on 10/31/2014 3:14:25 PM PDT by lee martell
That sounds crazy.”
Had cataract surgery last March on the first eye. Was put through the wringer with lab and cardiac tests and a million questions from the PA and each of the docs and lab tech. Sodium level was high so they wanted me to come back in for a lab test just in case. Told them it wasn’t going to happen. They went ahead and did the surgery.
The only problem from the first surgery was created because, in spite of the fact that I warned them ahead of time, they did not deaden the surgical and surrounding areas enough and I sat up straight on the table while he was making the incision and implanting the replacement lens!
Then three weeks later they did the second eye. Had a new charge nurse (from England) who informed me about 15 minutes before surgery that she had decided and recommended they postpone surgery and wait for a new sodium level test which would take at least a week. That meant that I would have to do the physical and all the lab work again because both surgeries and the other doctor stuff had to be completed within 30 days. I threw a huge fit. Fortunately the eye surgeon over ruled her.
I just pray that I don’t need any more surgery in my lifetime because the getting ready part is worse than the actual surgery.
It is all getting crazy!
Under the heading, “Healing” is an explanation of how cigarette smoke (and/or nicotine alone) impacts tissue healing, and may be helpful to understanding why you need to quit all nicotine before elective surgery until well after the surgical wound is healed. Time to quit my friend. Be well.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410808_3
Thanks for posting, lee martell. Very interesting. Great thread. Thanks to all posters. Great health / long enjoyable BUMP!
Are you counting the e-cig use in your 1-3 a day, or is that separate?
I had a patient who was getting chronic bronchitis from cigarettes - he replaced about half his smokes with e-cigs. Chest cough got a lot better but his circulation was terrible - feet cool and purple.
Now you probably weren’t going into surgery with cold purple feet, but e-cigs can deliver more nicotine than tobacco cigarettes, and it’s a potent blood vessel constrictor, slowing wound healing and increasing the chances of infection, and it makes sense for a surgeon to be concerned.
However, you should be judged on your individual use and response to nictotine.
Foot surgery? You sound like a quack.
You have a good doc. Anesthesia is a problem for heavy smokers. It’s better if you stop smoking prior to the operation. Start back afterwards, if you choose.
http://www.davehitt.com/facts/who.html
on Second Hand Smoking. (IMHO) The Health
NAZIs; decided to alter, for their own political benefit.
I actually stopped using e-cigs years ago, because they are too expensive and the process becomes too fussy with multiple parts one has to keep purchasing. This is after one has found the ‘right e-cig configuration that suits the individual. I mistakenly thought bringing up e-cigs would give me a Pass & Go to the Surgery Theatre, as the lesser of two evils, as it were. Not really.
I sounds to me like some lame excuse is being offered to cover for their lack of availability of something critical.
Most surgery patients who are smokers usually die after surgery. Second hand smokers don’t fare much better.
I agree this is crap. Might I add that ALL surgery patients eventually die after surgery.
Who told you that line of garbage?
http://www.foothealthfacts.org/Content.aspx?id=4820
A quick google would show multiple articles about smoking and healing. Looks like the doc made a correct and informed decision based upon his professional opionion. Why do you suggest they were looking for an excuse?
I just (3 weeks ago) had abdominal surgery, and one of the surgeon’s “requests” was that I stop smoking before the knife comes out. I’ve been waiting for 8 months for an anesthesiologist to become available, so I went ahead and quit.
Not a big deal to me, though when I smoke, I SMOKE (between 2-3 packs daily). Other smokers can’t understand how easy I stop the weed, while I have trouble understanding why they have so much trouble dropping the habit. Note, I said HABIT, not addiction, or crutch, or any other pseudonym for lack of determination.
I did however, tell the doc that I consider his request out of line, because I consider what he does as “mechanical repairs” to my body. I wouldn’t honor a request from my garage to fill the car with premium and run it through a car wash before having a tune-up done, so why would I alter my lifestyle for the doc? He merely smiled and said I had a point.
Best of luck with your dropping the stinky sticks, and may you have less trouble with your recovery than I seem to be enjoying.
Do you smoke with your feet? Most people use their hands.
All patients who even see a doctor for anything die afterwards.
Of course it may be 50 years later, but they DO die.
That’s utter crap
You should have three words for your doctor(s). YOU ARE FIRED!
An increase in post op deaths perhaps? Yea that's logical. "Most"??? No that's quite a stretch. Too many varying factors including how many a day, condition of heart and lungs, etc.
Can you show me ONE death certificate that has “Second Hand Smoke” as cause of death?
I’ll answer that for you, No you cannot, because the whole secondhand smoke is bad for you meme was manufactured out of whole cloth by the anti-smoking gnatzis because they don’t like the aroma of tobacco smoke.
There was a huge metastudy done by the WHO several years ago that found that the ONLY statistically significant effect of exposure to secondhand smoke was in children, where said smoke had an IMMUNIZING EFFECT against lung disease in adulthood.
Whether you support the demonization of smoking or not, at least try to use factual information rather than spouting the talking points of the left.
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