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Re: nerves cut
From: Robin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Aug 29 06:37:30 2003
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. My mom had an assist embedded
on her ovary and Dr. Brodie had to surgically remove it but when she
did she had cut two nerves one by the pubic bone and another by the hip
I was wondering if anyone could email me or reply to this message so I
can help my mom. She's had cries. nerve blocks, acupunture and tons of
different perscriptions but nothing helps. If anyone out there can
recommend anything at all a doctor a perscription they would be our
guardian angel. Please help me get my mom's life back.
Robin.
If you need to contact me my email address is
ryounker@mail.onlinesupport.com or
robinyounker@hotmail.com
t Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Holly R Campbell wrote:
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>Carmen,
>
>I have to add some new info that I just found out about nerves being cut.
>I spoke with a woman in our dept. (she has a M.D. and PhD). She said that
>it depends on how your doctor makes the nerve cut as to how likely it will
>be that the two cut ends will grow back together. If it's just snipped
>and the ends are close together physically and they have access to
>nutrients in the myelin sheath (this is a tissue that's like a slip-cover
>around the nerve) and the extracellular matrix (this is a layer-like
>structure, microscopic, that has important nutrients on it) then the nerve
>can grow back rather quickly (1 millimeter per day). If, on the other
>hand, the doctor takes out a section of the nerve so that the two exposed
>ends are relatively far apart and don't have the myelin sheath intact
>between them it takes longer. How long, you say? I'm not sure, but now
>that my curiousity is up on this issue I'm going to do some research on
>PubMed to see if I can find any studies about it. Hope this helps you in
>some way. If I'm blabbing on too much about things let me know and I'll
>stop rambling!
>
>Holly
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