I wonder if it’s really the other way around — people who tend to get infections often have this surgery because, well, they often get infections?
Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
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Re: Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
#142Only barely related but I have a personal story about this! I had my tonsils removed at eleven years old. I didn't know why then, and I still don't now. I suffer quite a bit now from allergies (I'm not sure how related to this it is, and I guess I've no way of knowing really). I remember being really scared, and the surgeon playfully telling me that I'd be fine, I'd be asleep through the whole thing and would wake up…
Very unpleasant! I recall spitting up blood afterwards, but it wasn't that bad at all. Although, I was never supposed to have my tonsils removed. I was in hospital for another reason but got mixed up with someone else and the wrong operation was performed.
Yikes! How on earth does this even happen?
I'd at least expect some Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey after a quagmire of this magnitude.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Homeopathy doesn't work. Acupunture doesn't work. Traditional Chinese Medicine doesn't work. Faith healing doesn't work. These rigorous studies you're mentioning do not exist.
This meta-study supports the use of acupuncture to treat chronic pain: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
The practice seems to have a (very small) effect compared to placebo or "fake" acupuncture, but the "traditonal" theory of it has no explanatory value whatsoever.
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#144Re: Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing sexist about it. She was a mess, I helped her deal with her problems, she greatly appreciates the help. My point was that people's presentations have a context. She was an emotional wreck because of all the different kinds of "stress" that she was dealing with -- unresolved "birth trauma" (umbilical cord wrapped around her neck), "adverse childhood experiences", etc. Her tonsils were extracted because…
Do you're saying bad childhood experiences caused emotional trauma caused her tonsils to be inflamed? I'm looking for a better explanation but can't find one. I don't think your comments are sexist, but they do seem illogical.
No, I'm saying that birth trauma (related to a Nuchal Cord [0], and possibly a breech birth [edit: just confirmed she was born breech; doctor tried pulling her out with forceps and the nuchal cord wrapped around her neck made her birth more traumatic than usual) was one of the factors behind her later development of inflamed tonsils. Bad childhood experiences contributed to her being unable to cope with life when we met.
In no study was it possible by ultrasound to
distinguish between a loose or a tight cord,
although at least 3 attempted to do so.[citation
needed] Peregrine[2] concludes that ultrasound
diagnosis of nuchal cords will only be useful if
doctors are able to do so reliably and predict
which of those fetuses are likely to have a
problem.> but they do seem illogical.
I typed my first comment in this thread out on my phone. Subsequent comments were done using a keyboard. I suppose when challenging conventional wisdom I should restrict myself to using an actual keyboard to develop my post more.
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#146Interesting that however advanced medical science is, we still don't know about everything the lymphatic system does.
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#147Re: Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
From a personal experience, the public health care in Czech Republic is way much better than NHS or what you can afford as a middle-income family in US. The equation changes when you can afford private care.
A middle income family in the US usually has insurance that covers just about any specialist they want to see. MD Anderson, likely the best cancer institute in the world, accepts almost everyone's insurance (and also does about $100,000,000 of free work for those without). The only people really limited in who they can see are those on public insurance like state coverage Medicaid for the poor or federal Medicare for…
As someone living in the US with far better medical coverage than average I am awestruck by how wrong this statement is. Have you ever had to deal with a serious illness in the US?
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#149My son had adenoids removed last year because his hearing was VERY bad because of some kind of mucus blockage. Doctors explained to us that he would hear perfectly without the adenoids, because inner ear measurements were very good. So during the OP they cut away the adenoids, and made a hole into each eardrum, so fluids could exit. After the OP his hearing was so good that he told us not to scream at him when we bar…
So are his eustachian tubes chronically obstructed?
My younger brother had chronic ear infections as a kid, and as best I know he basically had tubes in his eardrums for a while, and then when he was older his eustachian tubes started draining more reliabily. He's been fine since.
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#150I’ve begged my doctor to remove my tonsils and they refuse due to studies like this. I get tonsil stones every single month and at least one severe case of tonsilitis per year (usually closer to 3-4.) Anyone have strategies that worked to convince their GP to allow them to be removed? At this point I’m considering just paying out of pocket to get it done.
Whoa I never knew what those were, thanks for mentioning tonsil stones! I also get them, but mine are typically not very large based on some of these images that showed up on google.
This is entirely anecdotal, but for me they seem to show up when I do a poor job of keeping myself hydrated.