Survey Question From A Sufferer.

[Ken Haley]

If you were offered an experiment brain surgery that could erase your PTSD symptoms, but could also fail and kill you, would you get the surgery. The chances of success are 10% and all other treatments have failed. Thanks for your input.

 

[digger]

It would depend a lot on the odds I think for me. What are the odds on it failing versus it being a complete success

 

[digger]

Also I would probably want to have exhausted all other options first.

 

[Ken Haley]

Thanks for your responses Digger1. I changed the question to reflect your input. I ask it the way I did because I have been pursuing this for a decade and would do it if there was a 1/1000 chance. I have been like this for 38 years and knew at age 13 surgery (impairment of the fear response) was my only solution.

 

[ill]

I wouldn't.

 

[therapybankrupt]

10% is a small success rate. I guess it would depend on my quality of life. If I was desperately wanting to find a way out if the pain, I guess it would be yes! I have gotten so much better. So for me at this time No! 90% is not worth a chance of what ever!

 

[TLight]

I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[digger]

And what are the odds of it resulting in death? 10% would be pretty low odds for me to consider it but I am factoring in as well that I have a child who would probably prefer a poorly functioning mum than no mum.

 

[franciemarnie]

No. This is my journey in life and I am taking it all the way to the end.

It used to be like I was lost, a stranger in a strange land and there were few sign posts or if there were I couldn't understand them. Now I get it. I can read the signs. The fog clears and I scramble onto the road where I see signs of life. Then the fog comes thru or thunder storms. But the Arctic cold is behind me. I am mostly out of the big Freeze. It hurts to thaw sometimes though. And speaking of pain, this metaphor is getting painful!!!! Man oh man - I got carried away, but you all get the gist.

 

[Leah123]

No way!!!

 

[Lionheart]

No, I wouldn't.

 

[Barberian]

No. This is my journey in life and I am taking it all the way to the end.

I am who I am. I must have faith in myself to come out the other side a better person than I started as when I was at my worst. As I've said many times "PTSD is not what's wrong with someone, it's about what happened to someone". To surrender to surgery is to say PTSD has beaten me. I have been slowly getting better, and I expect to continue to get better. Sure there will be bad times ahead, but that will not scare me into the option of surgery to "fix" me.