Preparing for Surgery – Anesthesia Warning
General anesthesia can have debilitating effects on some people with chronic fatigue syndrome. In general patients are recommended to avoid general anesthesia when possible. Several doctors have produced documents outlining their recommendations for anesthesia and the New Jersey CFS Association has produced a card you can download and print out. (Laminating the card appears to give the recommendations more heft with hospital personnel.)
- New Jersey CFS Association Anesthesia Warning Card
- Dr. Lapp’s Recommendations for Patients Prior to Surgery
- Dr. Cheney’s Anesthesia Recommendations
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I’m one of the people made worse by a minor operation- going from mild/moderate to severe and bedridden ME after the operation for a deviated septum (in theory to help with the ME by increasing oxygen) . 18 months later I have not recovered.
My goodness, Fred. That’s really something. Have you tried saline solution? We’re going to have a story coming up of a woman who also had mild/moderate CFS who was made much, much worse by the anesthesia. It put her flat on her back for several months. What got her out of it was IV drips of saline solution….
Did any one ever think it may have been the Oxygen and not the anesthesia.? I just found out I am highly toxic to Oxygen. I need biopsy done and am told to wait because of this and Diastolic Dysfunction.