...The question I have to ask myself what would I do if they do find a PFO? Should I get it fixed or not? Since my migraine frequency is 1 every 1-2 months. I am also concerned about potential damage to my brain that migraines may cause (some research suggest that this may happen).
Surgery these days is truly magnificent.
The nurses are all very nice and sweet to you, in the prep room, where they line up about half a dozen "roller-beds" (as I like to call them) each with a surgery patient on them. Then one after the other, these are then rolled into the operating room, a marvel of science technology with light panels on the ceiling, and with sophisticated biomedical equipment all around the room, as the local hopital performs its sequence of medical miracles for the day within the throbbing megalopolis of the modern city.
The doctors, interns, nurses, and aides are all gowned up in the purest white within the operating room, like angels, and as your bed is rolled in, they glance at you, presumably gauging your feelings, and your physiology, and reflecting upon their own roles in this, as they glove up, or adjust their gloves, a sort of unconscious behavior on their part.
They ask you to please slide over onto the operating table, and they take the bed out. The nurse adjusts your pillow for you, and makes sure you are comfortable, and rearranges your blankets, and then straps you in, like a seatbelt that goes across your abdomen and another across your legs. It is quite comfortable. By this time everyone is in their place, in a circle around you, and the anesthesiologist, whom you met earlier in the prep room, now tells you, "OK, I am going to put you to sleep now, OK?" And you nod, that it is ok.
In the next instant, a nurse in the recovery room tells you, "OK, its time to wake up now!"
It all happens in an instant!
The drugs that they give you afterwards to quell the pain work marvellously, being variations of morphine and coccaine.
So my point is, do not be afraid of surgery simply for surgery's sake. If there is a procedure that is applicable to you, and if it has a reasonable likelihood of success, and if you can get insurance approval, then I would definitely go for it, as soon as possible, and not delay.
I cannot speak for PFOs since I have never had one. But I am in favor of using surgery whenever needed to fix physical problems with your body. In a few weeks, you will be back to normal and even better than your former old self, best case!
Worst case, on the other hand, is that you shall face the ancient paradox of Christ on the cross, or of Achilles at Troy, that everyone dies, whether now or 50 years from now, and what does it really matter?
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