Posted by Honore on April 15, 2007, at 7:32:12
In reply to Re: It's hard to post here » Honore, posted by Declan on April 15, 2007, at 3:22:57
Exactly that bromelain,Declan. The doctor claimed it helped in wound healing, but I looked it up and there are a number of scientific studies dealing with it as a factor that can inhibit platelet aggregation (blood clotting, of course).
I asked his nurse who assured me they'd never had a problem. But then that's why they do double-blind placebo studies=-=-
It's a pretty complex substance. After the operation the doctor asked me if I used any prohibited substances (any nsaids, etc), which I know I didn't. He said my clotting during the operation was abnormal --leading to much more bleeding then he usually experiences--and was probably caused by something I used. Since my clotting is usually fine, and I didn't use anything except what he recommended, I'm going with bromelain. There's almost no research on side effects, etc.-- it's homeopathic, which means that there's no need to prove efficacy or safety in the US.
As to how I got the wrong operation, all I come up with is the theory of the "weakest link" I know what I"m doing, and am careful, he seems to be a fairly intelligent man-- so I'm betting the nurse somehow absentmindedly or carelessly wrote down the wrong operation in her notes on our meetings. I noticed that the first nurse suddenly disappears. Don't know if there was a transferring error, but I suspect the first nurse.
What it shows is that an awful number of things can go wrong, even when pretty competent people collaborate. The game of telephone is alive and well in doctors' offices, so to speak.
Thanks for asking.
Honore
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