My Big Regret

From Corposcindosis

PeterAUS

2/9/07

Although I've posted over the last number of years I never posted my story so here it is, in short.

I was 20 years old and in my 3rd year of uni in Canberra Australia. I'd suffered from sweaty hands as long as I could remember. Whilst being a good-looking and generally likeable guy I'd had very limited interraction with women and always shied away from it because my sweaty hands always made me feel so embarrassed, anxious, leaving me in doubt and without confidence. i was home at mum and dad's in 1999 when i saw the story on Good Medicine (same as "MadonnaAussie" incidentally). I sounded too good to be true. Of course it was but I'd only discover that once it was too late.

I went ahead to have the surgery in September '99 after my surgeon told me the usual lies. A chance of horner's and a 2% chance of signficant compensatory sweating but even then the majority of those folks were satisfied in the long term, i was told. Following surgery, I was told that more of my ganglion were removed from the right-side than the left, because they were bunched up and it was impossible to distinguish the ganglion, something like that. Over the years, I've developed more noticable effects on my right-side: nerve pains in my right calf, shoulder, arm and back. Its not excruciating but its a dull nerve pain. Very annoying and its getting worse I'm pretty sure. I also have terrible circulation in my right hand and foot, it really hurts. I never had this for the first few years after surgery, its true when people say that new side effects become apparent over time. The compensatory sweating has been a shocker. Very wet from the nipples down when its too hot for me. That's around the high 20s celsius when i'm relaxed and in shorts, it can be any temperature, if i'm a bit stressed with work/life matters. There's many other side effects too, including those indirect ones like depression and anxiety, too many to list and they're all on this forum. I notice the side effects every day and that's likely to never change, I will say that much. ETS has really taken so much fun and happiness out of my life. I could go on and on but I'll leave it there.

Don't get this surgery, it changed my life like I could never have imagined. I'm in a better headspace now than what I've been for many years but ETS is still my big regret and it still holds me back from enjoying the moment, enjoying life to the fullest.

Peter