For years now, I've had this periodic sensation of electric pop rocks bubbling in my neck and skull. It doesn't hurt, so I never thought much of it, but I was curious so I looked it up after the last incident. When I hit upon Chiari and looked at the symptoms, I nailed a good twenty or so of them.
Migraines, neck pain, clumsiness, losing my words mid-sentence, tinnitus, vertigo, random twitches... all the way up to the weirder things like Exploding Head Syndrome and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. All of these events seemed so sporadic that I thought each had its own plausible explanation, but after researching Chiari I'm not so sure, since so many of them fall under that umbrella.
Do you think I'm correctly self-diagnosing or just being a hypochondriac? If I go to the doctor, how do I even approach this? "I think I have a Chiari malformation, so if you could just refer me that would be great?" I have a feeling I'll be patted on the head and told to get some rest.