Season 4: Ep 6 - How did pain management post-surgery change my mind on opioids, and the addiction crisis?

<p>Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx</p><p></p><p>#opiods #cannabisheals #addictionrecovery #tedxtalk </p><p></p><p>This video includes questions</p><p>- What was the reason I gave my ten-year-old son, why did he have the surgery?</p><p> - How did I approach the dilemma of using Opioids for my son's pain management?</p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] This is Dr. Chalmers. Welcome to Wellness Insights with me. Dr. Chalmers. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:07] How did it affect my son's pain management? A lot. I mean, this is more, and I have all the pictures. If you knew me, you wanted to throw up, but I had to take pictures of it while they were doing it. They did chip the bone off of his plate because of the bone and sort of growing over it. So imagine that they decided this long prior. It opens. They can get to the they can get inside, and they can start working on the actual bones. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:23] And they had to take a chisel and literally like chip away at the bone that's in there before they can even unscrew the screws. When it was done. So you can see the incision, and you can see the bone, and there are holes, there are six holes in the back, like not like small holes, like big old holes where those screws used to be all the way through. And so then they put it back together. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:47] What happened the first time that he had the surgery when they put him in is that he had a reaction to the dissolvable strips, sorry, the dissolvable sutures they used. And so it had opened up. We had this wound issue to him; he had this giant scar. It was like three-quarters of an inch this way by the entire six-inch length of the scar. So what they did was they did a scar revision where they just cut off that scab. So he had to have the bone chipped away. He had six giant holes in the actual bone. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:22] Maybe six inches cut out and then sewn back together. That's that's what t