About Me: Female, 30, Framingham, MA, member since Sep 2010
Health law attorney in the Boston area, with the best husband in the world :) Diagnosed with Chiari I malformation as a teen in the late '90s, but told the malformation had nothing to do with my recurrent migraines and dizzy spells. Managed through life with varying l
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[More]evels of symptoms until June of 2010, when a simple stomach bug set off a more rapid progression of my Chiari. What was diagnosed as a 2mm chiari was now diagnosed as a 6mm chiari. After 18 months of trial and error with various tests, medications and other treatments, not to mention numerous doctors, my neurosurgeon recommended surgery for what was then an 8mm chiari. Decompressed 1/17/2012.
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Morning of surgery - got up at 3:30am to be at the hospital for 5am. I had somehow survived the prior week of fear, excitement, impatience and pre-op craziness. I had my...
'm 16 days post op and have aseptic meningitis, which may or may not be responding to the steroids they put me on (day four of steroids, still have intermittent fever...