Hello guys, let me introduce myself first. I am male, 29yo and living in Cologne/Germany - so sorry for my poor English (still tryin' to improve it :-) )
Since my teens if suffer from social phobia and blushing as well, sometimes very intensive, sometimes less - but this problem attended me for about the last 15 years. I went through a lot of shit, using creams/gels, relaxing methods and psychotropics, but nothing helped me for a longer period. I found a great site describing my problem www.erythrophobie.de, where I red for the first time about the ETS-Method (don't get it wrong, the site-owner is anti-ets too).
Last winter my symthoms got worse and that was the point when i said to myself, that now the ets has to be done. I informed myself and made an appointment with an experienced and well known surgeon for ets here in Germany and went there for a first checkup. There they first test your sweating capacity to see if the cs holds big risks. Well, in my case the test came out for good ( I never had any big problems with sweating) and I thought that the clamping on the T2 and T3 conflux (not directly on the nerve) could be the right thing to stop the hell I am living in. Well, I must say, that the doc was quite ok - we talked about the side effects and he recommended to think a lot about it and first to try all the other alternative therapies for my suffering. But I was so sure of my decision and said, that i want to go for it.
So, the date of my surgery is in the end of April, but the further research I did the last weeks led me to this site and made me change my decision. On the one side, I am happy and lucky I found you guys here - this may protect me from a very big mistake I may have done. But, honestly, on the other side it is also very hard for me losing all the hope I put into this surgery. Anyway, after all I red here in this forum, I have to cancel it.
Actually I am looking for a good therapist in order to start a cognitive therapy, which is recommended for social phobia and could be a good help for me - but I don't expect too much. I must admit, for the case that this therapy might not help and if there will be methods found, which reverse the ets to 100 % , I may give it a try.... maybe...
But until the facts are like this now, I am too afraid of all the risks and the certainty that the ets cannot be reversed. Well, the things I learned on this site are depriming, but I have to thank you a lot, guys, for all the effort you do to inform people like me. And I feel with you, who suffer from the ets and hope that science may find the cure in near future.
Hugs,
atomic
Since my teens if suffer from social phobia and blushing as well, sometimes very intensive, sometimes less - but this problem attended me for about the last 15 years. I went through a lot of shit, using creams/gels, relaxing methods and psychotropics, but nothing helped me for a longer period. I found a great site describing my problem www.erythrophobie.de, where I red for the first time about the ETS-Method (don't get it wrong, the site-owner is anti-ets too).
Last winter my symthoms got worse and that was the point when i said to myself, that now the ets has to be done. I informed myself and made an appointment with an experienced and well known surgeon for ets here in Germany and went there for a first checkup. There they first test your sweating capacity to see if the cs holds big risks. Well, in my case the test came out for good ( I never had any big problems with sweating) and I thought that the clamping on the T2 and T3 conflux (not directly on the nerve) could be the right thing to stop the hell I am living in. Well, I must say, that the doc was quite ok - we talked about the side effects and he recommended to think a lot about it and first to try all the other alternative therapies for my suffering. But I was so sure of my decision and said, that i want to go for it.
So, the date of my surgery is in the end of April, but the further research I did the last weeks led me to this site and made me change my decision. On the one side, I am happy and lucky I found you guys here - this may protect me from a very big mistake I may have done. But, honestly, on the other side it is also very hard for me losing all the hope I put into this surgery. Anyway, after all I red here in this forum, I have to cancel it.
Actually I am looking for a good therapist in order to start a cognitive therapy, which is recommended for social phobia and could be a good help for me - but I don't expect too much. I must admit, for the case that this therapy might not help and if there will be methods found, which reverse the ets to 100 % , I may give it a try.... maybe...
But until the facts are like this now, I am too afraid of all the risks and the certainty that the ets cannot be reversed. Well, the things I learned on this site are depriming, but I have to thank you a lot, guys, for all the effort you do to inform people like me. And I feel with you, who suffer from the ets and hope that science may find the cure in near future.
Hugs,
atomic
