I recently had two minor surgical procedures. Both times I told the doctor and the anesthesiologist that I was worried about developing dysreflexia. Both times they assured me that it wouldn't be a problem, that they knew how to deal with it. Both times when I woke up from the surgery, my blood pressure was fine, no dysreflexia symptoms. However, not long after I was released, the anesthesia wore off and the dysreflexia kicked in.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:32 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> wrote: > I was talking to a member on the list and wanted to make every quad aware > of the danger of disreflexia. If you guys ever get a surgery where you are > put out make sure you tell the surgeon that your blood pressure is going to > spike and make them read the definition of disreflexia. Also make the > person with you in the hospital aware as well. So many people in the > medical field dismiss this as nothing but it can kill you very quickly. > Even if they don't believe you they will have blood pressure meds ready > then to help when it happens. Some will think you are crazy but tell them > anyway. > > Ron >
