The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Monday, January 28, 2008

Australian Story 3!

from: http://ets-sideeffects.net/index.html
TIMBO McCarty, an Australian/New Zealander who has been suffering from the side-effects of ETS for eight years and has been working on this website alongside me as well as helping organise meetings, had enough of the side-effects and committed suicide on October 29 at the age of 45. His Father and Mother asked me to put this on the website and to let everyone know that he had had enough. Timbo was always there for me as a friend to talk when I felt everything was getting to me. Timbo was also was a fighter. He wanted ETS surgery to be stopped and was depressed that the surgery is still being performed routinely. He was aghast that his surgeon, Dr Lin in Taiwan, who performed ESB (clamping of the T2 nerve), removed his clamps at a fee yet still performed reversals routinely even though so many people have come forward with complaints.....
This is the second suicide in two years from people who have had terrible side-effects.