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MVD Funding help?

My friend has been diagnosed with Atypical TN, and she is contemplating MVD as you can see the nerve being compressed on the MRI - so hopefully the surgery will stop the pain.

However, thanks to the pain she isn't employed and has no insurance. So we're looking for funding advice. Currently based in England, but desperately wants to go to USA for surgery.

So has anyone here received help for the funding of such an operation? The cost of the op is about 70,000 US dollars - but if something goes wrong... we know it will be much more than that.

If anyone has any advice for finding funding - or has received funding themselves, please get in touch!

Thanks
Nigel
 
  nigel_ on 2006-09-24
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
http://www.tna.org.uk/modules.php?name=Surveys&op=results&po...

Above link may be interesting.

If you can post all symptoms of the patient somebody out here'll help with the remedy.
 
maheeru last decade
just a sugession, chk the cost of surgery in india if the surgery is done in india then the cost could be a fraction of it.

best of luck
 
VIPINARORA last decade
Symptoms? Excrutiating pain for days on end. Carbamazepine dulls the pain, but then causes bone marrow issues, which now means she's caught the cold being passed around.

The pain is most excrutiating in her teeth, and she can't have anything touch her teeth - she can't even drink water without it hurting during an attack.

During a non TN attack, she will get toothaches which range from moderate to severe.

When she exercises, the blood vessel pushes down on the trigeminal nerve. She really wants to start exercising to get stronger.

Acupuncture has been tried, and didn't work.
 
nigel_ last decade
We looked briefly in India - is there a renowned keyhole MVD surgeon in India? We know of half a dozen in USA, but the trick is to find funding. We don't have the funds at hand.

We're worried about post-op bleeding and recovery time in the hospital.
 
nigel_ last decade

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