One thing that doesn’t stop amazing me is the firm belief people have, that chemical drugs taken for pain chronically are safe and surgery has all the risks.
In chronic conditions like pain or Hemifacial spasms the disease takes hold of the person’s psyche completely and the suffering is perpetuated and augmented.
If the condition happens to have a fairly potent surgical answer for permanent cure, the entire cascade of suffering due to the disease on one side… and medicines on the other side… can be cut in the bud. The notion “that surgery is the last resort”…can, not only be wrong, but dangerous…..as the problems enter in the negative cycle of chronicity and psychological and physical trauma…Not to mention the side effects of the chronic medications.
I see this happening almost daily at the MVD surgery centre where people ask me after relief, “Why were we not told that it could be CURED with surgery five or ten years back ?”
I have no answer to this.
Watch this new film which touches on one such important facet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7P4UP-0bcA