ANA Discussion Forum
General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: bethtretrault on July 04, 2015, 04:15:10 pm
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I am trying to get an idea of how long the surgery might be. For those who had retrosigmoid approach for a small tumor can you tell me how long your surgery lasted? For some reason I just really feel like I want to know...
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I had restrosigmoid at Johns Hopkins in early April for a 2 cm. neuroma. The surgery took 8 hours and I left the hospital on the 5th day after surgery.
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Mine was 9.5 hours.
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Thank-you for your replies. How are you all doing? My surgery is scheduled for November.
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I was also looking for that answer, seems like 6 to 10 hours is pretty common on these boards. I had one doc tell me 2 to 2.5 hours was all he needed, that scared me. My surgery is scheduled at USC in a few weeks, i think i was told typically to figure 5 hours. I don't want anyone rushing! Here are you having surgery?
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My surgery will be at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Good luck-let me know how you are doing.
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You asked how we are doing...there is always a "new normal." I am so thankful to have had very little pain and no lingering headaches. I only took Tylenol starting on the 4th day after surgery and within 2 weeks took no meds for pain. Also thankful to have no facial paralysis. I did lose all the hearing on the AN side (as was predicted), have lost maybe 40-50% of my ability to taste, and have a little bit of residual "wonkiness" (unsteadiness). Today was 3.5 months post surgery.
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Although I ended up having Gamma Knife, the length of time for surgery was a big concern for me. I have had past surgeries, no longer than 2 hours and did not react well to anesthetic. I would be very afraid of any surgeon telling you 2 - 2.5 hours will do the job for AN surgery. The majority of posts I've read have surgery in the 8 - 10 hour range. When I was doing my research I had two surgeons tell me to expect an average of 9 hours. The neurosurgeon I ended up with, would never quote a time - his comment was "It will take as long as is required - we cannot rush these things."
Cathie.
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Depends on the location of your AN and how sticky it is.
Mine was 3+ cms and my surgery lasted 7 1/2 hours.
Jan
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Thanks all. Sounds like there are lots of variables in the length of surgery time. Emily-did you have to have vestibular therapy? Do you feel well enough to drive and work?