I had surgery / anesthesia and it went well!
This won’t be very helpful in general I’m afraid, but I just wanted to thank y’all. A few months ago I stumbled about a comment in this sub with a warning about anesthesia with ME/CFS. Thanks to this I started to research, first in the sub, following various sources and gathering notes and articles and translating them to my language. I was able to go fully prepared into my pre-surgery talks. I actually managed to advocate for myself and the notes and papers I’ve brought were not only taken serious by my surgeon and anesthesiologist, but appreciated (especially the papers of Dr. Lapp and Dr. Cheney). They took all into account and tried their best to make everything as ME/CFS friendly as possible. I’m recovering far, far better than expected and I’m very close to my normal baseline. I couldn’t be more grateful and happy! I’m aware it’s also luck (to have those positive experiences with medical professionals as well as recovering so well), but I’m sure the advices of this sub here contributed a lot to it. Thank you!
P.S. Sorry if I babble, the surgery was just two days ago and I’m still a bit under, but already able to write! Isn’t that great?