Goitre op.

[Fruitandnutcase]

Just watched Kate Garroway’s programme - Your Body Uncovered - they are following two ladies, one who is having her gall bladder removed by keyhole surgery and another who is having her (massive) goitre removed. It’s very interesting to see what they do. Not too grim either.

[Anthea55]

I found it very interesting.

We've seen 'virtual reality' and the headsets for house design programs and for garden design programs; now here it is showing up our bodies. What next?

[fuchsia-pink]

I donated a kidney almost a decade ago - and that was keyhole surgery. Very clever; tiny scars you can hardly see and much shorter time to recuperate (my operation was on a Friday and I was out of there on the Monday, which is pretty impressive for major surgery

[Buddy195 Administrator in reply to fuchsia-pink]

Wow fuchsia-pink . That is amazing! 😊

[waveylines in reply to Buddy195]

Gall bladder surgery is done as day surgery too these days......

[Hylda2 in reply to waveylines]

Blimey, 40 years ago I was in hospital for a fortnight

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Hylda2]

Same here - I had an emergency caesarean 45 years ago and had to stay in for ten days - a friends daughter had a planned C section and was out next day.

[waveylines in reply to Hylda2]

Its the wonder of keyhole surgery! Though the consultant was very firm with me when I dismissed the significance of the op. He said just because you can't see much on the outside dont be fooled you've had a big op! They don't do follow ups for gall bladder surgery though! My surgery has left no scars that I can see which is amazing.....4 yrs on.

[Polly91 in reply to fuchsia-pink]

Wow that is an amazing thing to do. Does it affect your health?

[fuchsia-pink in reply to Polly91]

Not remotely. Literally no difference. They run all sorts of tests before accepting you - including one to check you'll be just fine on one kidney into your 80s. With modern drugs there is no pain at all. And a kidney from a living person generally lasts twice as long as from a dead donor [which I had naively thought was because of me (haha), but it's because the recipient can be properly prepared rather than it all being very last-minute.]

I was also part of a medical trial where they did a scan of where the kidney used to be on the Sat, Sun and Mon mornings, so I could see it healing, which I found fascinating!! [the research was to see if seeing what was going on in there aided patient recovery]

[Cavapoochonowner]

hi there, I also watched this and found it very informative.I am currently awaiting a thyroidectomy due to graves disease and have my pre op on April 1st( I know).

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Cavapoochonowner]

🤣 what a date to have - still it’s a lot better than a Friday the 13th.Good luck with it all, at least the weather will be starting to get pleasant for you to recuperate.

[Cavapoochonowner in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

yes, I know.Lovely day today where I am, will beable to get my washing outThankyou.

[Annoynomice]

Did wonder if they covered all of the post surgery implications.

I think because it was partial, she wouldn't get issues due to lack of thyroid hormone. But in the same programme, there seemed to be after effects on gall bladder surgery that were slightly skipped over.

On both the cases in the programme, surgery was the right choice, I think doing nothing was not an option (on the thyroid, especially as it was starting to affect her breathing, sleep, body confidence and there was a high risk of cancer)

[Ellie-Louise]

My husband had his prostate removed via robotic keyhole surgery, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had it done at the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford which has the only surgical robot in this country.

It did it through 9 small holes in his torso and he was only in hospital for 3 days.

His recovery was remarkable, very much faster than my brother who had his removed by the normal surgical procedure.

[Muffy]

10 years ago my husband had a large part of his bowel and his gall bladder removed via keyhole surgery. He was in hospital for a very short time and used to go for long walks a very short time after surgery!! Open surgery has a far longer recover time.

[serenfach]

I found it interesting that they now can monitor the nerves, and as soon as one nerve decided to get a bit twitchy, they could back off so that her voice would not be damaged. On my very first endo appointment I shared the waiting room with 3 women who had all had surgery and not one of them could speak much at all. Scared the life out of me as then I did not know the difference between treatment for hypo and hyper!

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to serenfach]

It’s amazing how they do that, i saw them monitoring nerves when I was watching a programme about Royal Papworth hospital. I really liked that surgeon, she seemed very good and she was really calm.