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LeishaCamden's avatar

Imagine getting an epidural and thinking nothing of it. In my country there's a famous para athlete (or she was an athlete, she quit competing this year) who used to be perfectly healthy. She injured her foot when she was 19 or 20 and needed surgery to fix it, they gave her an epidural for the surgery and she has never walked again. Nothing medical is risk free ... !!

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Ute Heggen's avatar

This is why I didn't consider having an epidural during my first childbirth experience. I knew a woman who had one during labor and she temporarily couldn't walk for 3 weeks. Was he awake during this brutal surgery? Not getting this. What's sad is he probably believes he "passes" and that he functions "like a woman" sexually. Keep bringing these horror stories on, Ex!

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TheRoach's avatar

It feels weird to say but I've missed this series.

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joolzzt's avatar

His complications are as 'extremely uncommon', as all of the other 'extremely uncommon' problems that people have all the time with this surgery.🤦‍♀️

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Deadladyofclowntown's avatar

It's strange how they can be very honest about some problems with the surgery -- it's the worst pain he's ever felt, etc, and yet claim happily that all this awfulness has nothing to do with the actual surgery! Never fails to astound me.

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Anne Martinez's avatar

It's taken as a given that the surgeries are unquestionably necessary.

I was reading this long post yesterday: https://substack.com/home/post/p-164829705 and it's fascinating how detailing the horror stories is more like some sort of purging religious ritual rather than a warning.

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Deadladyofclowntown's avatar

Yes, it does have a ritualistic quality, doesn't it? Experiencing these horrors only reaffirms their belief in the Church of Trans! Yow.

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Anne Martinez's avatar

It's like a self-martyrdom.

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Deadladyofclowntown's avatar

Oh, and, Ex -- cool headgrear. Reminds me of the French Revolution, I think ladies wore things like that in the 1700s? Very unusual and looks good!

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katansi's avatar

This is actually a common complication with epidurals! Which is another reason why they're probably bad for women to have during childbirth.

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trudie63's avatar

He does not pass, no matter how he starves, voice, shoulders and man hands. He has exchanged perfectly working male genitalia for a rot pocket and if he thinks epidurals are risk free, it just shows the delusional insanity of agp males

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Sya's avatar

I had this during my first CS birth. PDPH (post dural puncture headache) occurs in 3-4% of epidurals--not that uncommon at all. I was gaslighted for 5 days until I was give a blood patch procedure. Thank goodness it worked.

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Sya's avatar

My doctoral research touched on this. I interviewed a woman who had PDPH for 9 days and she said she very nearly offed herself.

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Íris Erlingsdóttir's avatar

It can possibly give you years' worth of migraines. I was 26 when I had my first Csection and epidural. My son is 35. I still have migraines.

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Tee Bee's avatar

His GIANT HANDS AT THE END…pale manly and not a thing is right here

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