operation to remove a gangleon

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:57

can anyone suggest a surgeon in the TRNC to perform an operation for the removal of a gangleon?

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:02

I got rid of mine myself by rubbing and applying pressure to it and strapping it tightly, it disappeared.

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:05

Dr. Bugra Girne 0533 867 3347

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:08

Tried that woodspeckie - did'nt work for me. Even tried my grandmothers 'old remedy' - banging it with a bible! b..... painful and that did'nt work either (maybe I should have tried the koran)

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:11

Thanks smithy, is he expensive?

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:19

No Dr. Bugra is very good and only charges a small fee as you will only need a local injection as it can be done very quick

timefore


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Posts: 495

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:44

whereabouts in girne is Dr Bugra smithy

smithy


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Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:47

Do you know Patara city if you do from the lapta road end go straight to the top of the Road, turn left and second turning on your right you will see signs for Dr. Bugra just follow the road and you will find is surgery

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 16:00

Hi timefore,



Three years ago I had quite a large ganglion on the inside of my wrist. I had a consultation with a specielist who advised me to leave it alone and it would most likely dissapear on it's own. He explained they are difficult to remove from the inside of the wrist because of the artery there. Three years on it has almost gone, so I would leave it alone and see what happens.





The butlers wife

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 16:03

Whats a gangleon?





DD

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 16:38

It's the 'thingamajig' on a goose's bridle, Daisy Dukes!

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 16:41

A gangleon is a benign cyst, had a couple removed years ago

Tinkie


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 1256

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 17:24

I have one that comes up every now and again on the outside of my wrist, it was out for about a year this time round and then a couple of weeks it ago it just popped back in! Its not painful at all so I just leave it to do its own thing, my husband thinks its revolting when its out as its about the size of a brussel sprout when its at it worst!

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 17:30

DD thank god you asked as I hadnt a clue and thought it was a windup lol

smithy


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Message Posted:
08/12/2009 17:38

OH DEE YOU ARE FUNNY lol

deecyprus4


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Message Posted:
08/12/2009 19:12

Sheila seriously, I have never heard of one of those lol

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 19:14

Me neither, and i was feeling a tad too lazy to google it! LOL





DD

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 19:17

Hi folks - sorry to be pedantic (yet again) but it is a ganglion. I have one on the back of my right hand, just above my wrist. Had it for donkey's years and was told many years ago it was best, if possible, to leave them alone.



J

boglefan



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 511

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 22:55

Even if surgically removed they have a habit or recurring. If it is not causing you problems best to leave it be, all be it they are not pretty to look at.

clarets



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 752

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 23:17

Ganglions are cystic swellings of tendon sheaths, filled with clear jelly-like substance. Most of them eventually clear up on their own, but this can take years. They can be excised under local anaesthetic,or they can be drained with a wide-bore needle and a pressure dressing applied.Neither approach is a guarantee of success so if it doesnt need removing......leave it alone.

taraspring


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 571

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 23:53

I have a ganglion on the outside of my wrist. Have had it removed twice, so one vertical and one horizontal scar, and it was back within 6 weeks both times.

It is there to stay I think.

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 08:07

hit it with a bible to disperse it ! my daughter has one at the base of thumb and and my grandson in the palm of his hand it was really big as a baby but as he started cralwing it has got smaller. They wont operate and thats what they told us if you hit with something hard it will go.................. for a ,its fluid that escapes into a sack,a bit like a river bursting its banks !

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 12:03

Thanks for all the advice, think I will take the 'leave it alone' option