Salman Khan Opens Up About His Surgery

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‘Nerve disorder pain was like electric  shock’

Post surgery Salman Khan opens up about the terrible pain he was forced to live through

For nearly four years ,Salman Khan kept his nerve disorder close to his chest and continued

To work even though at times the pain felt like an ‘electric shock’ was being passed through him, the actor disclosed.

Salman said he under went an eight hour long surgery for the nerve disorder, trigeminal neuralgia on August 31 in the US,though he was initially told it would only be a 30-minute operation.

“I did not want people to know about the  surgery as my fans get worried, but the news spread and everybody got concerned about how serious the ailment was,” Salman, who is in New Jersey, told Star News.

Sources close to the actor have said that it will take him at least 15 days to resume work and has been advised complete rest till then.

“The pain might go in six months or it may take three to four years, it depends .I will have to come back again for a check-up.”

The 45-year old actor said he had been suffering from the problem for quite sometime.

“The problem started while I was working on Partner in 2007.A part of my forehead used to pain, as if somebody had applied electric shock in the area .Gradually the pain extended to my cheek and then throughout the filming of Veer my right jaw pained.”

Despite the pain ,the Bodyguard star continued working and only decided to go to the doctor when it became unbearable.

“The pain disappeared sometime back, but for the one-and-a-half years it has given me a lot of trouble, especially while shooting the climax action scenes of Bodyguard in Patiala,” he said.

“The surgery was good, they had told me it would be for half an hour only, but it lasted eight hours,”he said.

Salman said that tests conducted before the surgery revealed he had several other problems besides trigeminal neuralgia .

“When I got the angiogram done ,we came to know that there were two more problems besides  trigeminal neuralgia-one is AV malformation(abnormal connection between the arteries and veins) and the other is aneurism(bulge in a blood vessel). “That ‘s when we found the best of doctors and came to America. They were supposed to do an invasive surgery ,but they finally said it was not required.We got a laser surgery done called Gamma Knife.” Said Salman.

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