Finally did operation upon my cryptic right palm final Saturday, January 9th. It’s been steadfastly dull given Christmas, due to all the primer work I’ve been you do for the brand new house. I’ve been carrying this insensibility — thumb, index finger, prolonged finger, & the thumb-side half of my ring finger — given 2007; though behind then, we usually felt it during your convenience I’d be biking for some-more than fifteen mins straight. (I float the towering bike the lot; here in Cebu, it’s how we transport my donkey from home to propagandize & back.) The symptoms never persisted over that. Until now. So, time to save my right median haughtiness from complete compressive damnation. (I really do not wish to finish up similar to my dad, who never had decompressive carpal hovel operation until it was as good late. He was misdagnosed & mal-advised for his carpal hovel set of symptoms complaint behind in 1999 — both his hands have atrophied float muscles now, no interjection to the idiots who told him which “it’s zero sir, only practice it continually to negate the debility & the ulnar mono-neuropathy”. They could have during slightest gotten the haughtiness right. Too bad we became an orthopedic proprietor 6 years as good late!) Next up, my left carpal hovel — if it ever flares up similar to my right. Yeah, we get insensibility of the left palm median haughtiness placement too, though it’s some-more transient, some-more singular to the biking thing. But eventually, we will have to bear operation for the left side as well. Oh yeah, we additionally did the trigger finger recover of my right ring finger — that’s been locking …
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Tags: carpal tunnel release, carpal tunnel surgery, carpal tunnel syndrome, compressive neuropathy, hand surgery, henry dimaano, median nerve, median nerve distribution, orthopedic resident, orthopedics, thumb index, thumb side, transverse carpal ligament
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711dicolor
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
doc.. saan hoba nakukuha yang case na ganysan sa kamay?
saddvamp
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
eww.. it looks cool tho. XP
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@magma84
there was something like this in a movie, really? who starred in that movie? i don’t seem to know it.
egfregfy4tgf3gtf
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger
magma84
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
remind of the dr. in commander and officer movie, i tot it was impossible now this video prove it..
kidmanier
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@d36u9 well said ;D
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
damn!.. that’s almost P65k — roughly what i’d make in TWO months.
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@noel926
wow, $1,500 — multiply that by 43 to roughly get the amount in Philippine pesos. damn!.. that’s more than what i make in a month.
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@kidmanier
didn’t “use my hand”, per se. just so happened that the operation needed to be done. and since the chance to teach a bit of anatomy was already there, i decided to make the most of it. it’s rather convenient, since i knew there wouldn’t be any problems with getting the patient to consent to an academic dicussion using the surgical site as a “model”.
devdey
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
I could never be a doctor i would throw up on the pashent X_X
kidmanier
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
you didnt want to use a model .. u had to use your hand..?
ZzNightmarezZ1
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
Dam…you sir deserve a “I am Fearless” medal.
noel926
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
nice job…had mine done bilaterally three days ago….this saved him $1500
SphinxGI
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
Didn’t understand “Finally did surgery on my problematic right hand last Saturday”
until 6:15
OMG! O_O!
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@vvvmuahvvv
wouldn’t that hurt your eyes?
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@Loneeeey
thanks for your observations & comments.
BTW, those are actually the tendons you see sliding up & down. the median nerve itself doesn’t move/slide anywhere, really.
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@littlej2743
not when there’s anesthesia.
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@kylecab31
nope. why would i be disgusted of the anatomy of the hand? (especially my own.) the way bones & muscles & tendons & nerves & blood vessels are constructed to form what is such an elegant yet highly functional tool which we know as the human hand — that’s something to wonder at. our hands are amazing machines, and they are what i deem to be the most powerful extension of our minds. what’s to be revolted about it?
kylecab31
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
i know this is a dumb question pero “nandire ka ba?” xD
littlej2743
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
DOESNT THAT HURT!?!?? LIKE WHAT THE FUACK!?!?!!?
northean
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
I love the terminator reference =]
Loneeeey
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
Doctor, I think some people just have it in them and others dont. I really cant watch this… watched up to the point where I saw your median nerve moving and damn near threw up. The world needs people like you, well done on the self surgery. I guess putting your hand into your own hands is the only real way a doctor can know that the surgery has been done properly
vvvmuahvvv
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
I couldn’t keep watching this i had to stop at 3:30 I kept squeezing my eyes
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@swiftfraud09
i would suggest you see an ENT specialist for your nosebleeds, there might be some blood vessels inside your nasal cavity that need to be cauterized.
^_^
d36u9
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:09 am
@apdrago1015
why? there’s anesthesia all the way. i didn’t even feel any pain during any of the cutting. the only pain i felt was the first few seconds of the anesthesia being injected into the skin. after that, no more pain for the rest of the procedure.
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