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- Dec 16, 2023
Friends, never accept a surgery with a 50% or less success rate unless you're facing death or crippling disability without it.
You can refuse treatment. You can just say "no". Sure, you'll suffer, but with a bad surgery, you'll suffer even more, and you'll likely need revision surgeries and extra pain for the rest of your life. A bad surgery can make your pain MUCH WORSE than it was before the surgery.
I can verify that is 100% true. There is a surgery for my spinal condition that is only 50% successful, and has a chance of actually making it worse. Thus, I am waiting until I can't possibly stand it any longer or the odds of success actually start to decrease before doing anything.
I know people that have had spinal surgeries that are actually far worse off now than they were when they started. Spinal surgery is a very risky thing, never let anyone tell you otherwise.