Want to reduce pain and increase healing time from surgery?
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I was trained as a hypnotherapist and discovered a method to reduce or relieve pain and drastically reduce healing time following surgery. While under full anaesthetic, you are still able to hear perfectly, though you will not remember anything when you wake up. so write a note for your Anaesthesiologist and ask him/her to read it to you about six times during surgery. The note should say that your are having surgery (specify the type, spinal, appendectomy, hip replacement etc) and that after surgery you will feel no pain whatsoever. Also, after surgery your body will heal very rapidly. If bleeding might be an issue (after having your tonsils out for instance) add a sentence to the effect that there will be no bleeding from the wound. I have written notes to over 64 patients and the success rate has been virtually 100% (only one Anaesthesiologist refused to participate). I underwent spinal fusion surgery 5 months ago and my Anaesthesiologist read my note half a dozen times during the four hour surgery. I walked over a mile around the recovery ward the following day with no pain whatsoever. I also healed very rapidly and was able to return home on Day Three following surgery. This is a very safe, free and proven technique that works beautifully. Mike
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jannie11 myc1
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That sounds very interesting and could be a wonderful help to anyone undergoing any type of sugery.
I'm particularly interested in spinal fusion, 3 in my lumbar spinal. I had a fusion at C5/5 in 2009 but now I have serious degeneration of 3 discs and one vertebra that is out of line by 5cm in my lumbar spine, hence the need to fuse 3 vertebra. Currently I am going through the thinking process before I decide whether to go ahead with surgery or not, it is such a big operation.
Sounds like you might have had only one fusion, given the 4 hour surgery.
Is there any more information you would like to share about your surgery, don't worry if not.
I would be also interested to hear more about the way the note works for the patient if you would be so kind to share mor.
Thanks so much
Janis
myc1 jannie11
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My first two spinal surgeries were discectomies to remove a bulging disc at L4/L5 following a low speed motorcycle accident (I landed on my butt in a drainage ditch). Neither surgery worked and my latest MRI showed that the L4/L5 vertabrae had moved forward and had twisted, trapping my sciatic nerve causing constant sciatic pain. The third surgery happened Nov 17th in Calgary, Canada where I live. I had the same surgeon for all three surgeries and he was nothing short of brilliant. For the third surgery, I wrote myself a letter which my anaethiologist read to me half a dozen times during 4+ hour surgery. The letter simply said: "Michael, you are having spinal surgery to fuse three vertabrae together. When you wake up, you will not feel any pain. There will be no pain from the surgery. You will heal rapidly from the surgery with no complications." He repeated this at least six times during the surgery. When I woke up, I was aware of the swelling in the small of my back but there was no pain whatsoever. The following day, I was disconnected from various tubes and began walking around the ward using a 2-wheeled walker for the first few laps. Again, no pain and barely any discomfort from the swelling. I continued my walks around the ward all day, now without the walker. By the following day, my surgeon agreed to let me go home. Before I left, I spoke with a hospital administrator who asked if she might keep my letter as she wanted to research its effectiveness. Of course, I said yes.
How does the letter work? No idea! Other than I saw, first-hand, the remarkable healing and pain management effects of hypnosis when I was a hypnotherapist. One particular case involved a subject who returned from a swim at the beach and sat on a top bunk bed to towel off. Unfortunately, she over balanced and hit the glass casing on a wall-mounted gas lamp that had been left on all day. She left a playing card sized patch of skin stuck to the hot glass (yes, I can still smell it). When you practice hypnosis, you use a post-hypnotic suggestion to put your subject back into a trance state almost immediately. I used "Alpha Sleep" and was able to put the lady under almost immediately. I told her I was applying a brand new burn cream that would take all her pain away and she would heal rapidly with out any scarring (she was a fashion model so scarring was a concern). Not only did her pain literally vanish, she healed within about a week without any scarring
Under anaesthetic, your hearing remains unaffected which means verbal suggestions work extremely well. I have written letters for a total of 64 people under going surgery and all but 2 have worked extremely well. Of the two that didn't, the surgeon ridiculed the idea and threw the letter away, subjecting his patient (my wife at the time, having her tubes tied) to ten days of unneccessary pain. The other one was having spinal fusion the day I left the hospital so I wasn't able to follow up with her.
I received an email request from a lady to write her a letter to help her through a surgery to rebuild both her breast that had been removed several months earlier. I kept it very simple and sent it to her the same day. I heard nothing back from her for about 6 weeks, then, out of the blue, I received another email telling me how incredibly successful the letter had worked. She had no pain following her surgery (she boasted she hadn't needed a single pain killer) and had healed in record time. Her surgical team were amazed at her recovery, so hopefully they have incorporated the technique in all their surgeries.
It is so simple, cost nothing, reduces pain meds, the rapid healing frees up hospital bed space, and save the system a lot of money.
It would sure be nice to make this a part of every surgery.
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JeremySt myc1
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myc1 JeremySt
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I think I may have answered your questions in my reply to Jannie11. One thing I forget to mention is that the success of spinal surgery resides very much with the surgeon involved. If you are contemplating fusion surgery, maybe take the time to research your surgeon's qualifications.
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JeremySt myc1
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Yes you did answer my questions in your reply to Janice, thank you. The whole thing is nothing short of fantastic! I am thinking of giving a letter to the anaesthetist before my hip operation soon. Although I am half expecting raised eyebrows as part of the reaction. This is the conservative, quaint UK after all!
myc1 JeremySt
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I know all about the quaint UK, having been born in Wimbledon and having spent the first 30 years of my life all over the UK. One of the things I'd do before the surgery is to tell the surgeon what you want from the anesthesiologist, which includes a meeting prior to surgery. You may be suprised by the anesthesiologist's reaction. These are people with very high stress jobs - after all, your life is in their hands - so anything you can offer that helps them should be very well received. I forgot to mention that you might also ask the anesthesiologist to suggest that your bladder (and bowel) return to normal functioning shortly after surgery. This avoids the unpleasantness of a catheter if you don't pee within the required 24 hours! Should you wake up after surgery and find you already have a catheter into your bladder, I have a great tip for you when the nurse comes to remove it. Simply curl your toes downwards while she removes it. This somehow relaxes muscles around the bladder and you'll hardly feel it when they whip it out.
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Choanie myc1
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myc1 Choanie
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When I first took up hypnotherapy many years ago, the term "belief and expectation" was the norm. If the subject believed in hypnosis and had the expection they'd be hypnotized, chances were good that would happen. Not sure I believe that now. It matters not whether you believe you can be hynotized once you are under anesthetic. When a subject is under hypnosis, I believe they no longer have access to logic or to their internal editor or their power of reasoning, call it what you prefer. Without that access, there isn't much a hynotized subject won't believe. Since power over pain and rapid healing is part of all our make-up, all we are doing is accessing those circuits normally buried deep in our brains.
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kathy07828 myc1
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myc1 kathy07828
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If you have had surgery, you'd need to be put under by a recognized hypnotherapist, since we no longer have access to you while you were under anaesthetic. I'm sorry to hear you are still in pain. I hear that a lot from people who have undergone fusion surgery. Best I can tell you is to research the surgeon. Seems like there are a few out there that maybe aren't as good as they could be. Good luck, Kathy.
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Enna1 myc1
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There is another one I heard one saturday, but don't remember the beginning, where you are falling down from a high up field (or something like that) and you can see different things as you are falling - eventually you fall into a boat and float down this river and you see things happening in the river. Know that one?
Unfortunately although there is a yoga class here in the village I am not sure whether I would understand, but then whats to understand if I have already done it. I am very flexible (every dr says that) and if I wake up in the morning and have a painful time, I do my little bits of yoga exercises until my meds kick in. Yoga is one of the most fantastic things I have ever done in my life. It has helped me no end.
I would recommend it to anyone. Well done Mike. People would laugh at us but ... what would you call your method? Mindfulness? You can hear people whilst you are being operated on anyway but I would always say be careful because both ops I have had I think I did too much afterwards. So I would say, take it easy. Is there anywhere on the internet that you can explain to anyone what it all means?
Also, Id just like to say that if you join a yoga class don't be afraid that you are not doing wholly what the others are doing. Its takes a while to get into the hang of it and I know experienced women who went to my class who couldn't do a certain exercises I could do and vice versa
myc1 Enna1
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I tried yoga years ago to help with my lack of flexibility. I didn't last very long but I remember I was able to stand on one leg for ages. That was because, at 6'4" I was able to poke my finger into the ceiling to improve my balance. Pretty sure that is called cheating!
There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of visual imagery you can use to still the mind and, hopeful, achieve a state of self-hypnosis.
I have never settled on a name for what I do so feel free to call it whatever makes sense to you.
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