This thread highlights a real problem in the European aviation medical sphere: you cannot ask an AME for an opinion without risk, because he/she is required to report any contact to their CAA. It fairly obviously could trigger an investigation.
I incidentally checked this with an AME a few days ago. However, the UK PMD concession renders that CAA requirement largely void because even if an AME knows you no longer meet Class 2 requirements you can completely openly just fly on the PMD (UK, VFR only, etc). Obviously the AMEs are pretty unhappy about this, but there is no statistical evidence of a reduction in safety.
In the US, you can simply ask. The AME has no duty to disclose any contact.
Had surgery under total anaesthesia a few years back. Spoke to my AME and said not to fly afterwards for 2(?) weeks and send him a letter from my GP that all was well and he would reinstate medical.
Of course, that’s not an issue anymore due:
https://www.euroga.org/forums/hangar-talk/2476-ga-activity-and-its-decline/post/366543#366543
I fear that the above will bring huge losses of class 2 medicals to many simply due to cost and hassle.
Several AME’s I have spoken to say the change is completely unwarranted.
