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"Key Hole surgery"

About: Kettering General Hospital / Vascular surgery

I was given Endescopic sympathectomy twice for hyperhydrosis. The first surgery a year ago, went fairly well and I woke up from surgery with minor issues and my surgeon was present when I woke up and went through my surgery with me in detail. I was left with minimal scarring, one under my armpit and a small one on my chest.

However this time when I came in for my surgery for the other side it seemed almost as if a completely different surgery was done even though it was still the same surgeon. They used a completely different method to put me to sleep which resulted in me waking up several hours after my surgery, my surgeon was nowhere to be seen when I woke up, the scars had been done in different areas to last time and they are massive and don't look like keyhole surgery at all!

I am very upset and angry by this as no one even told me that the surgery would be different I just assumed it would be the same as last time! And to top it all off they didn't even stitch up my wounds properly, last time they used proper stitches and this time for some reason they thought that butterfly stitches would work just as well at holding my skin together even though the wound has been done all the way into my chest cavity! And the butterfly stitches are falling off already!

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