Re: Sural Nerve Biopsy with complications

August 30, 2002

To Kruser:

What you are experiencing does happen, not always, but it does

happen. Anytime ANY nerve is tampered with, operated on,

whatever, this is how it responds (ie. it's angry it got messed

with). It may take months for it to go away and there is a

possibility you have may have some permanent numbness. That

should have been spelled out clearly on the consent form you

signed before the procedure was done. If you or anyone you

know has ever had their wisdom teeth removed on the lower jaw

and noticed numbness in their lip or jawline long after the

anesthesia wears off, it is the same principle. The mandibular

nerve, in that instance, got bruised and stretched as the tooth

was being removed. One final example would be a herniated disc,

say in the neck, that caused numbness down the arm or into

the fingers. Once the disc portion was removed off of the nerve

it was pinching the nerve starts to respond in kind with

shocking, tingling, burning sensations. It can take up to 12-18

months for full feeling to come back in fingers when a

herniated disc w/ surgery has occurred in the neck if there

was loss of feeling in the fingers prior to surgery.

Don't ever be afraid to ask your doctors the same question to

posted here.

Blair

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