1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 6:48 am PDT

What this article didn't mention is that going under the knife, particularly for elderly people who are prone to AAA, can have awful effects. My father-in-law had the operation and had SEVERE demntia as a direct result and suffered horribly. Without the operation, he would have had a much higher quality of life, even if that life had been cut a little shorter by a quick and relatively painless death. But I'm sure that the surgeon did well.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 6:53 am PDT

What this article didn't mention is that going under the knife, particularly for elderly people who are prone to AAA, can have awful effects. My father-in-law had the operation and had SEVERE demntia as a direct result and suffered horribly. Without the operation, he would have had a much higher quality of life, even if that life had been cut a little shorter by a quick and relatively painless death. But I'm sure that the surgeon did well.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 6:55 am PDT

What this article didn't mention is that going under the knife, particularly for elderly people who are prone to AAA, can have awful effects. My father-in-law had the operation and had SEVERE demntia as a direct result and suffered horribly. Without the operation, he would have had a much higher quality of life, even if that life had been cut a little shorter by a quick and relatively painless death. But I'm sure that the surgeon did well.

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 7:00 am PDT

What this article didn't mention is that going under the knife, particularly for elderly people who are prone to AAA, can have awful effects. My father-in-law had the operation and had SEVERE demntia as a direct result and suffered horribly. Without the operation, he would have had a much higher quality of life, even if that life had been cut a little shorter by a quick and relatively painless death. But I'm sure that the surgeon did well.

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 8:07 am PDT

Yes, very helpful. Thanks!

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 9:55 am PDT

One thing I did not see with all the suggestions of how to deal with chronic pain. I did not see a suggestion to do a bone scan. I went through all your suggested treatments, until I suggested to the doctor to do a bone scan. Guess what, the results were such that I ended up at the Oncologist office to learn that I have pain because of metastesized breast cancer in the bones, stage 4 cancer. Before taking any pills, before submitting your body to physical therapy, accupancture, chiropractors, opt for some more thorough testing. Mammography only catches 50% of cancers. Even ultrasound may not catch lobular invasive carcenoma deep down close to the rib cage.

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 9:57 am PDT

One thing I did not see with all the suggestions of how to deal with chronic pain. I did not see a suggestion to do a bone scan. I went through all your suggested treatments, until I suggested to the doctor to do a bone scan. Guess what, the results were such that I ended up at the Oncologist office to learn that I have pain because of metastesized breast cancer in the bones, stage 4 cancer. Before taking any pills, before submitting your body to physical therapy, accupancture, chiropractors, opt for some more thorough testing. Mammography only catches 50% of cancers. Even ultrasound may not catch lobular invasive carcenoma deep down close to the rib cage.

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 2:30 am PST

you made no mention of Marfand's syndrom which almost always ends with an aneurysm of the aorta media.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 6:21 am PST

This article helped me counsel a patient who requested screening for "aneurysms".

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