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Originally Posted by lancetrot
Hi
A healthy concern for surgery isn't a bad thing, it actually helps in preventing you from taking surgery too lightly, but an unhealthy fear of surgery could keep you from taking control of your health. If your fear of surgery is holding back you from having a surgery which you genuinely need, remind yourself you're not alone. Surgical anxiousness is common, but it is always very treatable.
Working with your doctor and other members of your healthcare team, you will be able to fight your fear of surgery. Your fear of surgery does not have to cease you!
Goodluck
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Easy enough for someone else to say :/
I am Constantly picturing the skin on my neck cut and pulled open now. Them cauterizing areas in it and probing around. Snipping things off. Perhaps the wrong thing by some mistake- accidentally severing a nerve to my vocal chords or perhaps worse.
Without the surgery things will just continue to get worse but how can I knowingly get a surgery that is less effective, less safe, and leaves a larger scar than one already in existence. Knowing that there's a safer option out there and that the only one my mother will even consider is the less-safe one has me flipping out even worse.
I know several people don't, or it doesn't induce this level of nausea and fear in them, but I KEEP picturing what's going to happen with my neck and it makes it so much worse. I don't know how to help it either.