I still can't convince myself either way. The figures on both sides are almost exact opposites.


Its undeniable that there are thousands of patients who have had horrible side-effects from the opp, but then its hard to define just how many people have had the surgery and suffered from severe CS, it could be 10%, it could be 50%. And finding an unbiased article on this subject is unbelievably hard. I'm finding it hard to accept that every heavily qualified ETS surgeon is a scammer, and I'm struggling to believe that they all deny the statistics which I seem to be seeing on forums understandably biased against ETS (like the 88.5% reaccurance rate jinnjucz110 posted), so somewhere along the lines somebody has the statistics wrong... or everybody has.

Like you said, it would be foolish to convince myself that the grass is greener on the other side, but at the same time I could be passing over a solution to a life-times worth of suffering, I'd feel far more comfortable if I knew the real amount of dissatisfied patients, heck I'de settle for 40/60% in the positive favour, but finding out those statisitics just doesn't seem possible. Even if I do have any success getting the NHS to cover the surgery for me, it'll be at least 6-12 months before the opp, so I suppose thats a hell of a lot of time to find out all I can, weigh up the odds, and hope for some more statistics.

I'm going to see my GP tomorow, and I'm going to ask him to refer me to a specialist (or a surgeon) , and before I even have the opp I'm going to mither the hell out of the surgery (thank you Freedom of Information Act!) to find out what I can about previous patients, statistics and what not. I realise most of you probably think I'm being foolish for even considering the posibility, but at the moment I doubt I could actually pass basic training with my Hyperhidrosis. I'll have a chat with my GP about beta blockers and botox (which as far as i'm aware isn't available for palmer hydrosis in the UK - at least not on the NHS, and as a student I can't afford to go private), possibly considering Iontophoresis. Regarding Iontophoresis, the only reason I haven't tried this yet is due to the impracticality of its equipment for my chosen career path, a smaller more transportable machine would be perfect -if it could fit in a briefcase- ... Oh joy.


Edited 2 times by kingflab Feb 12 08 5:36 PM.