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Archive => Archives => Topic started by: lmurray69 on October 01, 2006, 01:54:10 pm
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did anyone get their whole head shaved..I am have the Translabyrinthine crabiotomy, how mich do they shave off to do this type of surgery?
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Hi Linda:
My shaved spot was about 3" X 3" - some Drs. don't even shave that much. My hair is short so I had it cut the day before surgery. I had one trim up about a month post op and that was it, it was all evened out.
(http://image2.frappr.com/pix2/i/20061001/a/1/c/a1c865857cf0e461cb24e8b02aeb5f3d0_medium.jpg)
This photo brings back memories........before you know it you will be sending us pics of your incision!!
Kathy
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Thanks Kathy, I am not bothered with it just wanted to know if i needed a 1/2 hat or a full tee hee
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Here's how much the shaved from me. My hair is only jaw-length, but the top still hangs down enough that it completely coveres the shaved area.
(http://www.carepages.com/usr/G39085/P496875_FS.jpg)
Katie
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I have long hair but the docs only shaved a small area right where the inision was. I had to pull my hair back for you to even see the incision.
Lynn
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I had the translab approach also and they shaved all of my hair. My hair was shoulder length, straight as nails hair before they shaved it. It's been about 17months since my surgery and my hair is thicker and curlier than before, its just about the length I had it before.
Leah
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They just shaved the back for me... and i have long hair so it doesn't really show.
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(http://www.patient-network.com/gallery/I/2005/01/01/18.jpg)
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I got a real short haircut right before surgery. Then they shaved most of the left side of my head.
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You know, now I'm really curious....Scottie and Stien...what approach did you have? Geez, even Kathy and Katie look so far away from the back of the ear...my scar doesn't go more than 1" from the backside of my ear, it's very snug with it. But yours don't look low enough for retrosig either....sorry, I didn't take photos. But it basically follows the outline of my ear if you pressed it against my head.
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They used the retrosigmoid approach on me. No idea why it's so big, but it makes for a good story. ;D
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stein .. you have the coolest scar picture I've seen! 8)
Gennysmom, mine is like yours .. (trans-lab) small outline of the ear ...
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stein .. you have the coolest scar picture I've seen! 8)
Thanks! It's like the doctor used a protractor. :D
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My orginal surgery's incision line was much "higher"/closer to the crown of my head basically and then there was the "burr" hole on the other side of the crown.....hair from my ear back from surgical side to just past the crown on the other and around the back shaved.....I went within two weeks and got a "buzz cut" so it would all grown in even.
Kathleen
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Hi There,
Well I had long hair so they shaved a section of it and the rest of my hair covered the scar, you couldnt really even see the scar unless I showed it to you or had my hair up.
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They used the retrosigmoid approach on me too. I had surgery done in 2 stages, using the same incision so maybe that's why mine looks so ridiculously HUGE
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You know, now I'm really curious....Scottie and Stien...what approach did you have? Geez, even Kathy and Katie look so far away from the back of the ear...my scar doesn't go more than 1" from the backside of my ear, it's very snug with it. But yours don't look low enough for retrosig either....sorry, I didn't take photos. But it basically follows the outline of my ear if you pressed it against my head.
I think exactly where the scar is has to do with the exact shape and contours of your individual skull and exactly how your inner ear fits into it all. I know my eustachian tubes have always gone at a somewhat different angle than most, so maybe that affects where the incision was done. ???
Katie
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mine was retrosigmoid and looks a lot like Muscottie's and Stein's--even a little lower--i think you are right re individual anatomy makes a difference too. I left my hair long so I can easily cover it. I still have my staples so I am looking for a partial plastic hatchet to have some fun with before it doesn't look so cool.
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Interesting....makes me wish I would have gotten a photo of it. I was just so grumpy and humorless at the time, and no one suggested doing it anyway. Something we can all do in Philly.....compare scars!
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This is my middle fossa scar, 3 days after surgery.
(http://image2.frappr.com/pix2/i/20061004/7/0/4/704f13bcf067a254abe20daf22059b921_medium.jpg)