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1. They do not cut a nerve! They cut the main sympathetic chain! For all conditions! This includes treatment for anxiety. phobia, schizophrenia, addiction, to reduce stress or for different heart problems: Long QT Syndrome, Arrythimas, Angina Pectoris.
2. If you would go ahead with the surgery, you would be operated at T2 for face or T2-T3. At this level, the surgery is associated with the most severe side-effects, all patients have compensatory sweating, which is no other than disabled thermoregulation. Dr Lin on his website - do your research - now explicitly refutes the 'compensatory' nature of the sweating post ETS. He says it is a reflex sweating. It can be translated as abnormal sweating. You can end up wit his side-effect even if you have the surgery for facial blushing!
3. Talking about zombie! You could be surprised after your op!!!! When it happens with medication, at least you can stop taking it. This is permanent. The last 2 neurologists I saw could not add to it anything else, but to agree. They conceded that the zombie effect can happen in some patients, but they do not know why or how it works...
4. You can find the list of side-effects on this website. Do yourself a favor and put some time into it.
5. Side-effects, their occurrence of severity has very little to do with the experience and expertise of the surgeon. Just remember: they disrupt the autonomic nervous system. It can have catastrophic consequences.

Here is an excerpt from an email from an ETS surgeons:
we know that we can
minimize the numbers of patients with unhappy outcome due to imbalance in their
neurovegetative regulation. Failure to follow strict guidelines, due to
ignorance, greed etc., will inevitably produce a relevant number of
catastrophic results.

Blushing op ruined my sex life,
man claims
11:10pm Thursday 27th September 2007
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By Jess Bauldry »
A patient is suing a hospital and claiming an operation to cure
blushing ruined his sex life.
Fitness instructor James Woodward, 32, was embarrassed by his
red cheeks, and underwent two courses of laser treatment.
But the blushing returned, and he developed excessive sweating,
problems with his sex life and became depressed, needing Prozac.
Mr Woodward, of Valencia Road, Worthing, claims he was the victim
of medical negligence and is suing Brighton and Sussex University
Hospitals NHS Trust for £200,000 damages.
Before the treatment the fitness instructor suffered problems from
excessive facial flushing, which caused problems at work by
making it uncomfortable for him to attend meetings.
He decided to go ahead with an operation called endoscopic
transthoracic sympathectomy in which a medical team cut some of
his nerves.
A surgeon warned him of possible side effects, including dryness of
the hands, and the risk of his eyelids drooping.
But he went ahead with the operation on January 15, 2004, at The
Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton.
According to a writ submitted to the High Court Mr Woodward said
that after the surgery he developed difficulties with heavy exercise
and sex.
He says he now suffers dizziness, depression, chronic fatigue and
sexual dysfunction, as well as an inability to cool down, and sore
and aching muscles and sensitivity to light.
He also developed excessive perspiration from his chest down. He
says sweat pours uncontrollably from his chest, pooling on the floor.
His clothes become soaking wet and he has to change his bedding
several times a night.
Mr Woodward said the sweating was linked to emotions such as
despair and anxiety, and he either felt too hot or too cold - and cold
inside even when he was sweating.
He said he was not told of the nature and extent of the sweating he
might suffer after the original operation and the risk that his quality of
life could be substantially reduced.
He claims if he had known of the dangers, he would not have had
the operation done.
According to the writ the surgeon, Mr Brookes, expressed regret for
carrying out the operation at a meeting on February 25 2004.
Mr Woodward claims the surgeon said he would not have carried
out the surgery if he had read the medical notes and known that the
patient had been prescribed Prozac.
He paid more than £10,000 for a reversal operation in Italy in April
2004, which was partially successful.

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