Thread: Waiting forever in Toronto, Canada
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Old 04-26-2012, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by sealeg View Post
Hello fellow TOS sufferers:

I am new to the board. Was diagnosed in November of 2011, but really started showing symtoms in May of 2011 -- ended up waking up out of the blue one morning with a swollen right hand all the way up to my elbow. Within a couple days I was diagnosed at the hospital with a blood clot and the rest of the follow ups led me to my diagnosis several months later of venous thoracic outlet syndrome. Apparantly, there is only ONE specialist in Toronto who performs this surgery and he is currently transferring these skills to another surgeon (and will no longer be doing this type of surgery). As a result, I have been waiting and waiting and waiting....been told I need surgery, but STILL have yet to meet with the new surgeon who will be doing it. How frustrating! Anyone else from Toronto on this message board, or anyone else have similar experience?

Thanks everyone!
Have you checked this place out:

*Canadian Centre for Integrative Medicine and the Physiatry Interventional Pain Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto; wYork University; and zCanadian Centre for Integrative Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gordon D. Ko, MD, CCFP (EM), FRCPC, FABPMR, FABPM,* Nathaniel Benjamin Nowacki, BSc,w Leigh Arseneau, ND,z Melanie Eitel, RMA,z
and Annie Hum, MDz. (e-mail: drgordko@ rogers.com).

May be a good place to start. Good Luck!
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