scar tissue

[quilter]

Are any of the PN surgeons doing something more or different than Dr. Hibner to help prevent new scarring around the nerve after decompression? He's using the NeuaGen Nerve Sleeve and PRP. It's a fact of life that you develop scar tissue after an injury or surgery. So many of us underwent PN decompression and did well for awhile, only to be back at square one later due to scarring on the nerve with no new injury or anatomical problems. I'm feeling reasonably confident that cleaning it out again will improve my pain as it did the first time, but I'm also scared of repeating this cycle.

Are there any medications or nutritional tools to take before and after surgery to help decrease scarring?

[Ray P.]

My second surgery was 7 hours. Most of that time was cleaning out scar tissue from first. No improvement.

[velmartd]

Ray - Who did your surgery ? Did you have any improvement right after the surgery, before the scar tissue grew back ? How long have you had your PN issue ?
Mine has been one year, and I have internal pelvic PT, 2 Injections, and now they want to do botox ? I not sure botox will help, have you had botox ?
Well, this a very difficult illness to deal with, and impacts, you and your family...

[flyer28]

From what I read before this was the main problem of dorsal nerve decompression, after initial success many of patients fell back into pain circle becuase of additional scarring.
I think the successful cases are those where the neurosurgeon left some space for scarring without risk to entrap the nerv again. The risk is that the scarring process is highly individual, some people are lucky enough to move on without much scar tissue some not.
TG approach is more prone to other risks, I would say.