my son had an operation for a descended testical, is it possible to develop behaviour problems after the opera
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there won't be any problems.\njust need to be a bit careful for some time after the operation.
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I am 29 years old and I was born with a cleft palate, particularly Pierre Robin Syndrome.  I had a corrective surgery at 10 mos old and a pharyngeal flap reconstr at 12 yrs old. I also had a minor rhinoplasty at 18 yrs old.  As a child I had extensive speech therapy.  All I can say is this, as a consequence of my condition I have mitral valve prolapse and sleep apnea (loud snoring)...but overall I am fine.  I have always worked hard to look good and study hard...and am currently graduating medical school hopefully becoming a reconstructive surgeon! Support your child...every case differs in what sort of medical problems the child has..however, the emotional and psychological damage from being born 'abnormal' that can exist can be a problem...but also varies and if you are a parent...support and love your child...knowing that sky's the limit. My parents loved me and made me feel like a princess growing up...I didn't realize something was wrong until I was about 6 and was going to speech therapy without my friends...the person dealing with any adversity is changed for the better because they overcome challenges and obstacles better than the average person!!
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I'll go out on a limb and presume that your son is already medicated.  He needs therapy NOW.  If you have health insurance, contact them to find out who they contract with to  handle mental health needs.  Then contact that organization and get your son scheduled with a child psychologist who specializes in Bi-polar kids and you'll need a psychiatrist as well to prescribe for him.  If he is currently medicated, he may need a change in dosage or even in medication.  In the meantime, if it's at all possible, designate one room in your home as the "safe" room.  Remove all objects that could injure or be picked up and thrown.  Your son obviously cannot have his way all the time.  So when this happens, get him into the "safe" room and use yourself as a human straight jacket -- come from behind him, get him down onto the carpet and grab his wrists and cross his arms with your own.  Use your legs to immobilize his, if you are able.  If there is a father in the house, this will be easier for him to do.  Keep your son immobilized.  He will scream, he will yell, he may even curse.  Ignore all this.  Keep up a steady stream of soothing words in a low voice.  Continue doing this and he will eventually refocus and be able to calm himself.  This is tiring for parents but it works.  Good luck.\n\nOkay, I'm seeing that your 7-yr-old also has a behavior problem, which prompts me to ask has your 11-yr-old actually been screened for and diagnosed with Bi-polar or did you decide this?  And there is no father in the house.  However, your kids, both of them, and you need family therapy ASAP.   I now believe this is a parenting and behavioral problem rather than a psychological/medical one.  It may be a result of the divorce.
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Depends on what the doctors told you before you let your son go into surgery.\n\nIf they told you there is a risk, well you took that risk and lost or rather your son did.\n\nHowever if some Dr just screwed up then you should consider it.
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The therapist and support group cannot even legally give you any inclination that he is even a patient there under the HIPA rules so you can't do much but move on. Honestly, if he has done "sexual things" in front of your son and is an unstable drug addict you need to seek help for yourself to understand why you want him to be anywhere near your son. Sorry, to put it so bluntly, but yeah dream on.
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I'm afraid its not normal ...\n\nyou better consult some other doctor.. the surgeon who operated upon your child is not going to accept his fault ... u know what I mean ?\n\nso better go to some good surgeon (military or civil)
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Kerrie-\n\nWow, that's a big question.  First of all I'm a parent, not a neurosurgeon so don't take this as gospel.  My daughter is almost five and has spina bifida, hydrocephalus and Chiari-2 malformation.  She also has a g-tube (more on that later) but has not suffered from seizures.  She has had the Chiari surgery (it's called decompression) at a very young age-about 13 mos-because her Chiari is pretty pronounced and prior to the surgery she would quickly become sympomatic if her shunt failed (I think we're on about the 20th shunt!).  She was also de-tethered at the beginning of last year because of severe lower back pain.\n\nBasically Chiari means that the brain is shifted down and back in the skull.  This forces the brain stem down into a sort of funnel where it connects to the spinal cord.  When pressure builds in the brain the stem is compressed and nerves are temporarily or permanently damaged.  Typically the nerves that are affected control upper neck and head stuff- breathing, swallowing, vocal cord mobility, etc.  My daughter's cords were paralyzed at 6 mos which caused stridor and aspiration of small amounts of food- hence the g-tube.  During the Chiari decompression surgery bone is removed from around the brain stem making more room for the stem- when the pressure increases there is less effect on the nerves in the stem because there is more room.\n\nTethered cord means that the cord is attached to either the spinal column or scar tissue (in the case of spina bifida).  As the person grows the cord is stretched instead of floating in the CSF in the column.  Stretching the cord usually causes a loss of mobility but can cause back pain.  Actually you are the first parent I've heard from whose child is experiencing pain like my daughter did- usually mobility is the issue.\n\nIs your son suffering from lower back pain?  I haven't heard of Chiari causing back pain but I'm a salesman, not a neurosurgeon.  What I have learned is that the brain and spinal cord are all floating in one interconnected and balanced system of fluid.  Pressure building in one part of the system can cause issues with other parts of the system.  Unfortunately I've also learned that neurosurgery is basically a science of highly educated opinions.  Only so much can show up on an MRI and there are no hard-and-fast rules.  Some kids can tolerate a lot of ventrical pressure and some can't.  Some kids have severe Chiari but are never decompressed because they never show any symptoms- basically their nervous systems can just deal with it.  Some kids lose mobility when their cords are tehtered and others are in pain... you get the point.  At the end of the day it comes down to how much you trust and respect the surgeon and what they are basing their actions on.\n\nI still haven't answered your question, have I?  If your son is experiencing back I would think it's probably caused by the tethered cord so it makes sense that the surgeon wants to do that first.  It really doesn't matter, anyway.  If the cord is tethered that has to be fixed whether it's the cause of the pain or not.  For my daughter the de-tethering was much more difficult to recover from than the decompression surgery but the surgeons were clear that because of the amount of scar tissue from her spina bifida repair that it was probably the most complicated one they had seen.  The decompression was much simlpler- surgery took a few hours and she was home in a week.  It took her a while to get full mobility back in her neck (the surgery is done at the base of the neck) but that was just from the surgical pain.  The Chiari symptoms eased almost instantly and the whole thing was behind us in a month or so.  De-tethering was a much longer procedure with 6+ weeks in the hospital but again her procedure was VERY complicated because of her unique circumstances.  The pain went away after the surgery healed and two months after surgery she wa
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This is very challenging, indeed!   Time to bring on your "big guns" of creativity...\n\nAct, but do not REACT.\n\nThe first thing that really stands out to me, is that he is really frustrated and feels unable to communicate effectively...and this is where you can really be the hero for him: to show him by your example how far you will go to continue communicating lovingly when you are frustrated.  I know it's tough, and he really needs you to be "bigger" in heart & wisdom than he is.\n\nI imagine that trying to verbally communicate with your son when he is angry and frustrated is nearly impossible.  But I do think that when he is calm, you and he can sit down together to problem solve this together and make a simple plan.  You might be surpised how distressing this anger stuff is to him, as well as be ignited by his brilliance of the ideas that you he would come up with.  But you already know that...;-] Either way, these conversations, however brief the interaction, will lay the groundwork -- on their own -- for the very ideas that he needs to draw from when he's so irrate. \n\n  Remember that often boys' verbal skills develop much slower than girls, biologicaly speaking.  (Do you remember this when you were his age?) My son couldn't speak understandably until he was 5; now an adult, he's an excellent & sensitive communicator.  \n\nSecondly, be very careful about falling into the trap of diagnosis and labels...They're rather like "pin the tail on the donkey", with lots of misses in the dark! While your main intention is to be a responsible and wise, loving dad, who doesn't miss anything crucial, I sense this could easily backfire on you, especially when you are asking him about symptoms of psychosis.  (Beware of projections -- not helpful.) .  Too much information for a 4 year old child who's already stressed.   Toss out the spanking right along with that, because that's really stressing him.  He wonders why you get to hit, and he doesn't. \n\nI never met a child who didn't respond to love, especially from his Big Buddy!\n\nOn the other hand, it is not loving to allow him to hurt you or anyone else.  Thrashing his own room, however, might be another matter...it's his stuff.  The basic element of developing his agression (competition, motivation, hutszpah! but not meanness) is normal, and You can be a responsible loving parent by not repessing his natural (vital, life force) agression and guiding or directing him in how to express his frustrations, safely.  I would clear his room of anything dangerous or hard, limit him to that kind of upset in his own room -- not agression towards anyone -- but allowing him a safe place and manner to vent his feelings until he is ready to rejoin the family.  He's not in his room for punishment, just for safety, just like you guys talked about it.\n\nNonetheless, I can well imagine this does not happen only at home, so you'll need to come up with a similar plan at Grandma's and the grocery store, etc. Remember the key here is not to stop but to guide him.  How do I know he's not the "Child from Hell"?  Because as soon as he calms down (on his own) he WANTS to return to a connected, loving state. And just like anything else thus far, he is looking to you for an answer to something that as yet seems just too big for himself to deal with.  \n\nUltimately, you both will not need him to rip up his room, because together, you will teach each other how to breathe, calm down in the moment, and communicate. You will be mastering this yourself, and teaching him this at every stage of his development.\n\nRight now, this is a stage (tough as it may be), which he will grow out of with your patient and brave guidance...and of course, Love.\n\nLove and Light to you all!\n\nP.S.> IF a diagnosis alone must be considered, I would first look at Asperger's or some other form of Autism, which tends to be
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Could be.  Everybody reacts to surgery different.  I would ask a Doc just in case.
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Oh, No, NO, NO!!! Do NOT take his string away!!!  Do NOT try to break his habits, until you have gotten training in how to do it without making him withdraw any further from the world!\n\nAutism is a very tricky problem. He is responding to the world the way he really does see it. How would you like it if, every time you did anything, you were not allowed to do it?  No, you can't scratch your itches, no matter how much they hurt... No, you can't look at anything pretty or interesting? No, you can't do anything you enjoy doing?\n\nYou may not understand what he sees in that string, or what he feels that cause him to have his other behaviors.\n\nThere are special programs designed, through research and through the comments and suggestions of those intelligent autistics, now adults, who are able to communicate effectively, to help your son learn new ways of seeing his world, and learn new behaviors.\n\nHow old is he? If he is under the age of 22, he (and you) should be receiving specialized Autism programming through the public schools, with home training services linked through the school social worker.  If he is under the age of 3, you are eligible for service support in your home (Individualized Family Service Program). If he is age 3 or 4, he should be in a specialized preschool program. If he is ages 5 through 21, he should be getting specialized programming through the nearest public school.\n\nSee these links:\n\nhttp://www.autismweb.com/\nhttp://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/brain/autism.html\nhttp://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer\nhttp://wwww.spedusource.org/
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you *can* sue anyone you want.  that said, i fail to see what outcome would have changed if it had been detected earlier....\n\n1. no harm came to your son. - no harm, no value can be assigned\n2. he would have simply needed surgery "sooner" - identical outcome\n3. it is not your *right* to have your son be an athelete. - no civil rights were violated.
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Go back to the surgeon that operated on you--- something may of happened with the surgery-------good luck
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It is not a big problem, just dont let him be ashamed of and don't let him feel for his act.\nIt happens due to organic causes, some boys do up to the age of maturity.\nHe will be fine with natural process. He is not feeling due to lack of sesivity in his organ.
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No. Maybe he's gay or a pedophile like Jackson. Be vigilant with your child. How is he interacting or "playing" with her?
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hard to say........\n\nnot necessarily a problem - that renowned genius Einstein did not walk or talk until he was 4 !\n\nbut...  if worried...  see a specialist.......
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Sure, depends on what the operation was for and if they removed one or both testicles.  Ask your doctor what you can expect after recovery and how long until you can ejaculate again.
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No.  Brain surgery could remove growths in the brain.  But bipolar is basically a deficiency in lithium - it is treated with lithium.  Schizophrenics have brain chemical imbalances - too much dopamine, too little serotonin.  These are governed to a great deal by food and alcohol intake.  None of these could be resolved by an operation.