I am 14 years old with osteochondroma. Is Surgery Safe for me? What complications can there be?

Question: I'm 14 years old with a solitary osteochondroma at the right lower femur. Recently it pained me a lot. It pains whenever I play soccer or run rigorously even for 30 minutes. I do wanna continue to play school soccer. So, should I go for surgery? Can there be any complications? What type risk might I have after the surgery? I'd be glad to hear back very soon from an orthopaedics or someone related to osteochondroma.

Answers:
Surgery is always risky. But the benefits almost always outweigh the risk. I read about osteochondroma and it says it is a tumor, not dangerous and from what I've read, it looks like the surgery option is not major surgery and recovery will be generally easy going. It doesn't look like there should be any complication. It looks like they will just remove the mass or shave it down.

Other Answers:
Shouldn't you ask your doctor about that stuff?

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