Tuesday, June 8, 2010

What can doctors do?

From my own experience, research and what I've heard, doctors can only do about two things about PSD:

1. Almost always, they encourage 'conservative treatment', which means rest, be careful and wait for the natural healing. Most of the time (from statistics and research) it DOES heal naturally, or at least heal till it doesn't affect our lives too much (I belong to this category).

2. In extreme cases they might mention 'surgery', which means putting stuff like nails to bind the pubic bones, which is said to have very low successful rate, and takes a long time to heal and involves a lot of pain as well. So doctors would never recommend a surgery, as sometimes you might heal naturally faster than having a surgery done. So a surgery is the last resort. If you can still bear with PSD, it's best to keep conservative treatments (even if it means for the rest of your life).

Sometimes doctors make you feel they're indifferent on this matter. I think it's natural. From their point of view, if there's nothing they can do, they don't want to worry about it. They have things that they can help to worry about. So in these cases they usually use only a few words to 'get rid of' us.

So personnaly I don't think there's need to make further queries to the doctors once they've made an conclusion.

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