Ouch!!!!!!!!!

dracul said:
No offense but I would NEVER plan any medical/dental/surgical procedures in third world countries with less than stellar sanitary/procedural standards. I lost a very valued friend and mentor in Mexico last year over a botched cardiac procedure done on him in a Mexican emergency room. Another friend received extremely poor wound/surgical care when she had a compound ankle fracture at a Mexican resort...had to fly her back to the states ASAP to correct the mess. This was last month!

You Might go in for a root canal and wake up in a bath tub filled with ice water and find a kidney removed and sold on the growing global black market for such items!!!:eek: No "body work" done on me in Mexico; not now, not ever!:rolleyes:
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I don't know.... with all the good doctors leaving Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland because of out of control malpractice insurance.... you might have a good chance of finding a good American Doctor/Dentist here in Mexico. I met with what seems like a competent ex-pat here in Playa about my problems. He was definitely less concerned with D.E.A. prescription regulations. And he was brutally honest with me in that I most likely would have to live with the pain for the rest of my life. :(
I'll take that kind of honesty over being treated in the U.S. any day. But of course the good ones are most likely far and few between. Dracul definitely has a very good point, probably a good idea to have the work done in the states if you have the choice.
 
nekidintahiti said:
Root canal is nothing, now if you said you were having rotator cuff surgery you would have my sympathies. I have had two root canals, and one rotator cuff surgery, and I would gladly have 32 root canals instead, or however many teeth I have in my head.:D
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Ditto on the painfull shoulder
 
another trashed shoulder to live with

TheKid said:
Ditto on the painfull shoulder
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Yeah, I know this "drill" too...pun intended. Fell on the ice at work two years ago rather hard right on my left shoulder. Subsequently went in for X-Rays of the injuries and the saw-bones was rather amazed at the sheer volume of past injuries, regrowths of bones, arthritis and soft tissue damage. He said I should have my entire shoulder "rebuilt" in a major way. Also said I would never be able to lift much more than 10 pound weights with a plastic-fantastic shoulder gizmo so I declined.

Better to live with my ruined joints and concomitant pain than to have some nearly useless fake shoulder replacement appliance installed. So I use some percocet, and whiskey and continue to work out as best as I can...while inculcating in my youngest "buffed out" son what NOT to do and end up like dad:rolleyes:

Hellfire. Agree dude. We have friends in the medical profession, several actually since my wife is a lifer RN with background in several sub-disciplines, and many complain that malpractice insurance constraints and costs are driving some of them out of practice!

This country is in quite a mess in so many respects. Everything is about the almighty profit and "doing it on the cheap". Quality be ****ed. Neither dominant political party offers realistic redress as they are terminally corrupt and misguided. I no longer even follow politics as it sickens me worse than my many injuries!!!!:mad: Can't even imagine what this culture/country/world will morph into over the next 20 or 30 years...glad I probably won't be around to see it.

I see a bad moon a'risin!
 
My son just got operated for rotator cuff, he complained about the pain for 4 months, we told him to just quit boxing and the pain would go away,, after 4 months finally we took him to the doc and he said we are operating in 2 weeks,,,,i felt really bad then:(
 
dracul said:
Yeah, I know this "drill" too...pun intended. Fell on the ice at work two years ago rather hard right on my left shoulder. Subsequently went in for X-Rays of the injuries and the saw-bones was rather amazed at the sheer volume of past injuries, regrowths of bones, arthritis and soft tissue damage. He said I should have my entire shoulder "rebuilt" in a major way. Also said I would never be able to lift much more than 10 pound weights with a plastic-fantastic shoulder gizmo so I declined.

Better to live with my ruined joints and concomitant pain than to have some nearly useless fake shoulder replacement appliance installed. So I use some percocet, and whiskey and continue to work out as best as I can...while inculcating in my youngest "buffed out" son what NOT to do and end up like dad:rolleyes:

Hellfire. Agree dude. We have friends in the medical profession, several actually since my wife is a lifer RN with background in several sub-disciplines, and many complain that malpractice insurance constraints and costs are driving some of them out of practice!

This country is in quite a mess in so many respects. Everything is about the almighty profit and "doing it on the cheap". Quality be ****ed. Neither dominant political party offers realistic redress as they are terminally corrupt and misguided. I no longer even follow politics as it sickens me worse than my many injuries!!!!:mad: Can't even imagine what this culture/country/world will morph into over the next 20 or 30 years...glad I probably won't be around to see it.

I see a bad moon a'risin!
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Where are you getting your percocet? I'm treated like a heroin addict over my Oxycodone for my neck and shoulder, and the doctor has all kinds of DEA bull**** hoops to jump through just to prescribe them to me. My wife screwed up yesterday and washed an entire weeks supply of my Oxy's, I'm going to try to see a doc here in Mexico and show him my prescriptions to see if he will write another script while I'm down here. Hopefully they don't have all the same bull**** nonsense they do in the states.
 
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