Guest guest Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Talked to my surgeon about my AVS reaadings. Clearly the right adrenal is bad and the sampling on the left adrenal was not successful. He told me that there is a less than 5% chance that both adrenals are bad given the data on the right side and the fact that there is a tumor also on the right side. My choices are: 1. Take the right adrenal out. Low risk of surgery. <5% chance that the left is bad and I have to go on drugs. No additional AVS with the associated risk (10% chance of problems according to one contributor) 2. Repeat the AVS. Could be bad data again. If the left is defective, go on drugs (same as #1) 3. Go on drugs. Lots of bad side affect with Spiro; may have bad side affects with Inspra in addition to lack of long term data. I very much do not like option 3. Balancing the risks of surgery vs. addional one or more AVS procedure(s), surgery seems to be the best choice for me. Comments?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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