Which supplements to stop before & after surgery?

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Hi everyone,

I hope someone here can help me please.

My question is does anyone know which supplements I need to stop / avoid

before and after surgery and also what supplements would I need to be

looking at giving to help with healing/inflammation etc after the

surgery?

Norman is scheduled for surgery on 9th February, the surgery is to be

on both wrists, to release the tight tendons which have contributed to

his wrists being flexed resulting in a " clawed " posture. This has

affected all/any possible hand function that he could have, over many

years and of course is also a cause of stress and discomfort for him.

Caring for him and dressing him up can be quite tricky when the hands

are tight and flexed. The operation will involve releasing one of the

tendons in the wrist and another tendon being transferred ( " re-routed " )

to the top of the hand to enable some wrist movement. It may be that

they will need to remove the first row of the carpal bones in the wrist

but they won't know until they are doing the procedure. It is all quite

scary... but it does not seem that there is any other alternatives for

him and his hand/wrist posture can likely get worse and worse.

Following the surgery he will be in plaster for six weeks.....really not

looking forward to all of it and my biggest hope and wish is that we can

get a chance of rehabilitating hand function.

Forgive me for the long post and going on about the operation but just

feel you guys are the only ones who may understand..... For now I also

need to get him better before the operation as he came down with some

" flu " like bug and has been quite congested. Thanks for reading.

emily x