About Me: Female, 43, West Henrietta, NY, member since Sep 2011
I was diagnosed with Chiari type I malformation in 1992. Had surgery and got out of the hospital on my birthday in 1993. The painful symptoms went away though I still had other ones that I didn't realize were connected to the disease because when I was diagnosed they
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[More] didn't have the info then that they do now. Like the fact that you can have a reoccurance of the "headaches" 18 years after surgery and no painful symptoms.
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