I reported this to Dr. Rantanen and Dr. Telaranta.
1. What was the reason(s) for ETS?
A. Hand sweating
B. Facial
sweating
C. Underarm sweating
D. General
sweating
E. Blushing
F. Social
phobia
G. Trembling
of the hands?
2. What was the degree of your symptoms before
ETS?
A. Hand
sweating
1=normal, 2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal, 2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Something else? if yes, what?
Foot Sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
3. What was the degree of your symptoms after
ETS?
A. Hand
sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
It is because my hands became too dry.
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Trembling of the hands
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
4. Did You have fatigue after ETS? If Yes, was it mild,
moderate or severe?
5. What kind of energy level did You have after
ETS?
A. Normal,
B. mildly lowered, C. Moderately lowered, D.
Severely lowered
6. Where and when was the ETS done?
7. What was the reason(s) for the ETS reversal
operation??
It is because I had severe compensatory
sweating.
8. What was the degree of your symptoms before
the ETS reversal operation?
A. Hand sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
It is because my hands became too dry.
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Trembling of the hands
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
9. When the ETS reversal operation was done?
10. What was the degree of your symptoms 3
months after the ETS reversal operation?
A. Hand sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Trembling of the hands
1=normal, 2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
I didn’t feel the change in three month after the surgery.
11. What was the degree of your symptoms 6
months after the ETS reversal operation?
A. Hand sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Trembling of the hands
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
I didn’t feel the change in six month after the surgery.
There was no trembling of the hands immediately after the surgery. but it
occured after a while. My hands are always trembling while awake.
12. What was the degree of your symptoms 1 year
after the ETS reversal operation?
A. Hand sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Trembling of the hands
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
13. What is the degree of your symptoms now?
A. Hand sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
B. Facial sweating
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
C. Underarm sweating
1=normal, 2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
D. General sweating
1=normal, 2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
E. Blushing
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
F. Social phobia
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
G. Trembling of the hands
1=normal,
2=mild, 3=severe, 4=unbearable
14. Do You have fatique now? If Yes, is it
mild, moderate or severe?
If Yes, is it milder than after ETS?
I have sometimes lethargy feelings rather than
fatigue. It occurs in unstable early spring season or rainy season. The degree
is severe at that time.
15. What kind of energy level do You have now?
A. Normal, B.
mildly lowered, C. Moderately lowered, D. Severely lowered
Sometimes I am in bad condition. But almost
normal.
If energy level is not normal now, is it better
than after ETS?
Absolutely yes. My energy level has greatly improved.
16. Did you get some new symptom(s) (Pain?)
after the ETS reversal operation? If Yes, how long this symptom lasted? Or is
this symptom still?
I feel my nerve flows after the ETS reversal
operation. At first, it was in my left chest. One and a half year later, I felt
my nerves were connected.
After that, the same occurred in my right chest.
Though 12 years have passed, I feel the flow even now.
When I
get nervous, ride on train, or am outside in summer, feel the flow of my nerve
become violently. Sometimes my sight was lost.
I also experienced panic symptoms. I believe
that it occurs when my nerve moves extremely violently from abdomen to upper
side. It was terribly painful. I don’t have this symptom recently. I think that
it is because the balance of the upper half and the lower half has been better through
the bypass which was made by reversal surgery.
I still feel my nerve flows. My hands were
trembling for it.
I felt dozens of times that my nerve was
connected with crunch noise in my head or shoulder. Without pain, I think that
it occurs when the nerve move into withered nerve. Usually it is happening in a
different place.
I also feel that the nerve to come out from (the
gap of) shoulder blade may break and block the flow. As I hear the noise of snapping at the place, I feel that nerve
repeatedly flows and stops. That flow leads toward both arms and head, so
therefore I think nerves of various point is connected.
Now I feel the flow of the median nerve of the
right arm. When nerve of right shoulder flows, nerve of arms also flows
violently and trembling of right hand also occurs.
I often felt fatigue of the muscles of the arm
around several years after I took reversal surgery. After that I felt the pain
of the shoulder.
In the process of my recovery, I felt my eyelids
lightened, the amount of saliva was increased, sensible temperature drops with
increasing sweat of the head, and concentration and appetite recovered.
As I felt so many small changes immediately
after reversal surgery, I found my nerve had surely connected. But in terms of
compensatory sweating, during the first 3 years, my benefit was only like this.
“It took more time to become sweaty when I was under summer sunshine”, “It took
less time to stop sweat when in air-conditioned room”, so there was no change
in the amount of sweat flowing peak.
It was more than 3 years to reduce the amount of
flowing compensatory sweating and to get acceptable effects.
17. Would you still be ready for the ETS
reversal operation now when you know the results of ETS reversal operation?
Surely, I will take this operation.
I know the possibility of unconnected, enormous
amount of time of recovery, particular importance of rehabilitation doing
exercise, and severe painful in the process of recovery. But I know the
benefits of receiving more than that.
18. Can You say what was the severity (Give the
number between 0 and 100; 0= the best possible situation, 100= the worst
possible situation) of your symptoms before ETS, after ETS and now after ETS
reversal operation?
Hand
sweating
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Facial sweating
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Underarm sweating
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Not the amount of sweat but the score of
severity.
I sweat more than before ETS, but it is no
longer a big problem.
General sweating
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Blushing
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Social Phobia
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
I became to avoid having contact with people
because of compensatory sweating.
Now, it is no longer a problem at all.
Trembling of the hands
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
During awake, hand (especially thumb) is always slightly
trembling, though I don’t think serious problem.
As this trembling become violently when I am in
tense, it is also usual for me.
Gustatory sweating
Before
ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
I lost appetite after ETS. I could not have
contact with others. So I had eaten only one meal a day at home.
I began to eat spicy food at much later, after I
took reversal operation, but I sweated pretty hard.
I may sweat more than usual now. But I found
many heavy sweater than me, so I don’t mind about it.
What was/is your general well-being? (Give the
number between 0 and 100; 0= the best possible situation, 100= the worst
possible situation)
Before ETS 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
After ETS
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Now 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
I bothered about foot sweating during winter.
Though I had no changes not only after ETS but also after reversal, I took good
benefits of drionic of iontophoresis machine. I also quitted smoking and
finally sweat of the foot stopped without drionic. I am no longer worried at
all now.
When I go out in hot summer, the sweat running
down in drops. But both the number of sweat drops and the amount of it are
reduced significantly. I also sweat from my head now, so it can cool head part
without burning head. I freely go out in
summer, because even if I sweat I soon stop sweating after changing clothes.
I travelled to Egypt three years ago, and to
India two years ago. Though both countries were extremely hot, I enjoyed
sightseeing. This may be the evidence that I am fully recovered.
I have a question.
As described herein, I have a feeling of nerve
flows from abdomen to hands and head through chest after ETS reversal surgery.
I think there are countless places after ETS
where sympathetic of the upper body had
been withered, and recovery progresses flowing to the withered nerves after
reversal surgery.
Is it right idea?
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