Re: Anesthesia so good it curled my hair

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My 15 year old had curly hair and since surgery in August it is straight. POOH.

Her rods are loose where attached in the pelvis and the first four vertebrae and

will have surgery the 13th of January to have bone built to fuse the pelvis area

and the first four vertebrae up from the pelvis. I so hope she will finally be

pain free and able to walk again. She has been completely bedridden since

September and in so much pain she is taking percocet every three to four hours.

This has been a very difficult time for all.

- Virginia, mum to three special angels and two grown children

Josh( Angel Wings May 2004, age 11)

Anesthesia so good it curled my hair

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, or if anyone has any info

about this. But, in recent years my hair has gone from stick-straight to

quite curly. I found this out when I decided to grow it out a year or so

after my surgery so I could try a new style (I'd been wearing it super

short). Well, it grew out curly, much to my surprise! No matter how many

times I've had it cut, it grows back curly now. I'm growing it out even

more now to try to see how I can play with new styles. To think I used to

pay big bucks twenty years ago to get perms of what I now have for free!

Anyway, my own long-time hairdresser was stumped by this, too (but she was

more stumped by how I could be 50+ and still have no gray hair). I recently

asked my cousin who is also a hairdresser, and she said, " Did you have any

anesthesia? " and I said, " Duh, you know I did. " She said that anesthesia

can cause your hair to curl sometimes. I've never heard of that, and I'd

certainly had anesthesia before (including three major spinal ops in

adolescence) and my hair remained straight. (or anyone), do you know

anything about this phenom?

D.

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Hi, fellow tellers of hairy tales:

Responding to the post about anesthesia and curls -- Yup, I had board-straight

hair before my flatback revision surgery, which entailed some eighteen hours of

general anesthesia. Afterwards, however, my hair got startlingly curly at the

ends. My own hairdresser was flabbergasted.

This was several years ago. I am now 56 and am not quite so curly anymore.(I

am finally starting to get a little bit gray, however.)

Anesthesia has done several other strange and disconcerting things to me in

recent years, but I have yet to find the medical library or PubMed citation that

can tell me why. So much of the stuff they are using these days is " new and

improved " that the literature probably does not yet exist.

Best,

Rasche , JD

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