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Anyone out there trained as an anesthesiologist

17 replies

dollypops15 · 06/09/2020 09:13

Advice please

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Grannyspecsandslippers · 06/09/2020 09:19

On?

Babdoc · 06/09/2020 09:23

Do you specifically want advice from an American, OP? We are called anaesthetists in the UK.
And could you give some hint as to the subject of your request?

DragonPie · 06/09/2020 09:24

You need to be a bit more specific.

FaffingForEngland · 06/09/2020 09:24

Are you in the US? They are generally called anaesthetists here, guessing the advice would be different depending on location. What kind of advice were you after?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 06/09/2020 09:29

Oh my, the pompous responses... Shock

OP, there is an anaesthetist who posts here (or used to), perhaps she'll see you post, bumping for you.

AnnaMagnani · 06/09/2020 09:30

Are you thinking you might want to train as one?

In the UK they are called anaesthetists, in the US anaesthesiologists.

Firstly, they are fully qualified doctors - not knowing this, makes them very upset.

So you would need to qualify as a doctor, do your junior doctor years, then specialise in training as an anaesthetist before becoming a fully qualified anaesthetist.

In UK terms this would take you 5 - 6 years at medical school (assuming non-graduate entry), 2 years Foundation training, then 7-8 years further training to become a Consultant Anaesthetist.

So not quick.

SockQueen · 06/09/2020 09:30

I'm currently an anaesthetist in the UK training programme. What do you want to know?

Babdoc · 06/09/2020 09:33

LyingWitch, nobody is being pompous! We are trying to determine whether OP wants advice about training or practice in the US or in the UK, as they are different.
Do try to give PPs the benefit of the doubt, rather than assume we are being unpleasant- most of us only aim to give appropriate advice.

GreyishDays · 06/09/2020 09:38

I presume you’ve looked into it a bit and found the basic info like this

www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/anaesthetist

DragonPie · 06/09/2020 09:54

Oh my, the pompous responses...

Pompous? Why is it being pompous when the OP has given no clue about what it is they want to know?

Do they want to be one? Maybe they have a complaint? Maybe they have a specific question? Maybe one of their kids wants to be one? Who the fuck knows! Maybe by being specific someone can direct their answer but instead we are having to play guessing games. Hmm

dollypops15 · 06/09/2020 10:32

Sorry guys I got carried away cleaning with my phone on silent. So ill make this short.... had an epidural around 10.30am for labour. By 7pm roughly I was screaming in agony. It felt as though my right leg was being ripped away from my body. This went on until 11.30pm at night when i gave birth.

Anesthetist came in twice to administrator more medication. Told my partner most amount he had ever given a patient before.

Im UK but my phone changed what I wrote. For 6 weeks couldnt use right leg at all. Now 2 years later still agony to walk, leg cant work against any resistance constant back pain. 2 MRIs show a tumour in my spine, not pressing on a nerves.

Never suffered with legs or back until birth of third child.

Just wanted to know anyone with experience if the epidural could of caused this.

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GreyishDays · 06/09/2020 10:55

Not a medic but have you considered the other way round, that the tumour was the reason for your leg’s reaction to the epidural?

Sounds awful all round.

dollypops15 · 06/09/2020 11:03

I asked that. But was told the tumour was no where near the epidural site, apparently its on my spine not pressing on anything. Its non cancerous and apparently I was born with it. But doesn't cause any pain x

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Meme69 · 06/09/2020 11:09

I had a spinal block for my c section. It only took on one side. It was ahony. I couldn't feel them cutting on the right but the left I could feel everything. I was screaming in agony and had to be given a general. Years later I was found to have a cyst I'm my spinal cord called a syrinx. I've always wondered if that was why. I also have severe leg and lower back pain. It could be linked.

dollypops15 · 06/09/2020 11:16

Thats what I'm thinking too. Literally if there is any resistance against my right leg it won't move. Im on pain medication and had to give up dancing as I can no longer use it x

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Greybeardy · 06/09/2020 11:25

Saw your previous post on this. I suspect the lack of replies there reflect that it’s impossible for any anaesthetist online to say anything terribly helpful. It also sounds like the people looking after you have also told you that the tumour and epidural are unrelated from reading your second post here.

An epidural cannot have caused a tumour to appear in 6 days. What is most likely is that you had the tumour but with no symptoms and either the process/position of pregnancy/labour has made things worse or the epidural may have irritated things (but that would obviously only be an issue if the epidural was sited at the same level as the tumour). The epidural may not have given decent pain relief because a large tumour could conceivably distort the anatomy and stop the epidural anaesthetic spreading.

It may be that if they’d known you had a spinal tumour they’d have not sited the epidural (because it would be less likely to work and because it inevitably causes confusion about cause/effect if there are symptoms afterwards), but it sounds like you were asymptomatic then so there would have been now way to know.

Epidurals can (rarely) cause nerve injuries, as would have been mentioned during the consent process. Presumably if you’ve got as far as having an MRI then someone would also have considered that by now.

Bottom line is that really the only people who can advise you are the ones who know the details of your epidural insertion (and details of your delivery), the results of your MRI & any other tests you’ve had and the findings on examination. Hope that helps.

dollypops15 · 06/09/2020 11:48

Ah thats fantatsic thank you. At the moment know one seems to know what's caused it. Physio said they can't help, MSK can't help so waiting to see a neurologist in Febuary x

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