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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Why I do not recommend Dr. Daniel Kruschinski

I am a former patient of Dr. Daniel Kruschinski and I want to tell my story so that other people will be aware, and can make a more informed decision than I did. I have written directly to Dr. K. several times, and the only response I have gotten from him is "Sorry we could not help you", or "Come back for another surgery, to give the nerves another chance to grow back together."
Damaged nerves do not "Grow back together". Does he really believe that they do?
I did NOT have adhesiolysis, I did not have the abdolift, I did not have spray gel, because they were not indicated for my problem. I had a scar revision by Dr. Krushinski , and as a result of that procedure done by him, I am so much worse, and in constant horrible nerve pain, which has not responded to any treatment. My life is ruined, and it is only going to get worse.
Why would I go to Germany for such a thing as a scar revision? Why would I seek out a scar revision from an adhesion specialist? The answer is that I was desperate and frantic. Prior to going to Germany, I had severe neuropathy from a prior surgery, and I was told that my scar was adhesed by a physical therapist, several massage therapists, a plastic surgeon, and a neurologist. They all told me that further surgery would just make it worse. So I tried a TENS unit, many different medications for neuropathy, and a nerve block, all to no avail.
I found the IAS on the internet and participated on that for several months, to learn about adhesions. I thought that pelvic adhesions, abdominal adhesions, and scar adhesions must have something in common. I heard about people who were going to Germany to get cured of adhesions and who were then pain-free. I called several of those people and believed them when they told me that they were fine, and that they were pain-free. They all encouraged me to go there.
I wrote directly to Dr. Kruschinski and his exact words to me were:"Your problem will be resolved when I take down your incision, remove the adhesed area, and re-suture you and the scar will not be adhesed again." He did not say, "We will see what we can do," He definitely said, "YOUR PROBLEM WILL BE RESOLVED WHEN I DO such and such........." He also told me that he was a plastic surgeon, but I do not think he is. He had another Dr. with him to do the surgery, and she was a plastic surgeon, and thus of course I had to pay double the surgical fee.
He seemed so confident, when all other doctors etc I had gone to said they could not help me, so I used my entire savings to make the trip to Germany, and I had the surgery, and I had to stay 17 days and I was in terrible pain the entire time. My scar was all the way around my body, and I kept asking for pain medication, but all I got was the liquid drops that people in Germany take for headaches. I definirely did not go bike riding or sightseeing, but I did force myself to walk 1-2 hours a day. I had tremendous swelling and bruising, which I expected, and I thought that when it went away, the pain would go away also, but it never did.
A very strange thing happened on the day of my surgery. I was back in my room, hours after the surgery. A nurse came in and told me to get out of bed and she walked with me down the hall and watched as I got back into bed. I had no problems getting in and out of bed. A while later, I got out of bed by myself to use the bathroom, which was just a few steps from the bed, and then got right back into the bed. Shortly after that, Dr. K. came rushing into my room, and loudly accused me of doing AEROBICS, demanded that I get out of bed, raise my arms above my head, and he then ripped off my dressing. He was muttering something in German. I never figured out what he was so upset about. I asked him what the problem was but he did not reply.
The rest of the story is that the procedure I had done by him was a total disaster. He made the skin so tight I cannot eat or breathe normally. It is perhaps just a coincidence, but the side of my body that he operated on is much tighter and hurts much more than the side that the other Dr, the plastic surgeon, did.

Just beware anyone who is reading this. Remember the saying "if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is not true. "

I do feel that Dr. Kruschinaki LURED me to Germany by his words "Your problem Will be resolved" Personally I think he just wanted my money. I was a fool to believe him.

Nobody from IHRT requested that I write this message. It was my own decision. There is a lot more that I could say, but I have confined my comments to my personal experience and not the experiences of others. They can speak for themselves.

Thank you IHRT for the opportunity to post this on your BLOG.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I found your story on IHRT and think you indeed were very stupid to go to Germany to have surgery by an OBGYN doctor for an adhesed scar. Doctors in the US told you that there was no sense in having surgery for neuropathic pain, and you believed one person you found on the internet?

Anonymous said...

Dear Morgan,
Yes, I was very stupid, I agree. I went to Germany with just a few inches of my scar causing severe nerve pain, now thanks to the surgery that I had from Dr. Kruschinski, the entire scar causes severe nerve pain, all the way around my body. I do not know why he insisted on re-doing the entire scar.
The day before my surgery, I was seen by the plastic surgeon, in her office which is in the Emma Clinic, and Dr. K. came along. The two of them conversed in German in front of me, even though the plastic surgeon spoke English perfectly. I did not appreciate that they conferred in German in front of me.

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