inadvertant benefit from surgery

seamus · 02-24-2004, 05:47 PM

i just wanted to throw this out there. the only time i've ever been totally clear for a noticeable period of time (i.e. one week) was directly after i had an unrelated minor surgery. this happened like a year ago, but i've been thinking about it. i think it had to do with some sort of injection i was given (i don't have a science background, so i don't know what the solution is called), to dry up your mouth. i think that it is done as a precaution or something to keep you from salivating during surgery and choking to death. only minutes after the injection, my hands with are usually moist, went completely bone dry. and for a week or longer after the surgery my skin has never looked so good.

so, just wondering if anyone knows anything about what this solution is called or the implications it could have. has this phenomenon ever happened to anyone else?

or maybe i could just go have some elective surgery.

j54 · 02-24-2004, 08:33 PM

Can't say I've ever had surgery so I'm not sure sorry, but that's a great idea, getting some random surgery every couple of weeks or so.... hehe.
10 points for creativity.

PhotoStic · 02-24-2004, 10:39 PM

Maybe one of [URL=http://www.lougehrigsdisease.net/als_pages/Ask%20the%20Pharmacist/what_treatments_are_available_fo.htm]these[/URL] are what you took.

PhotoStic · 02-24-2004, 10:43 PM

It would be interesting if there were some connection between salivation and sebum in the skin. I am no biology expert, but I think a medicine that mitigates saliva might also somehow dehydrate the body in other ways. Such as in the oil in skin. I dunno, just food for thought.

seamus · 02-25-2004, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by PhotoStic

It would be interesting if there were some connection between salivation and sebum in the skin. I am no biology expert, but I think a medicine that mitigates saliva might also somehow dehydrate the body in other ways. Such as in the oil in skin. I dunno, just food for thought.

I know it sounds kind of crazy but i REALLY do think there is something to this. That was the only time since i was 14 (i'm 25 now) that i was EVER completely clear of acne.

maybe i'll try to get one of the medications posted by "photostic"

hasn't anyone had this experience from surgery?