Could I have chiari malformation?

[Stroud5393]

I’ve been dealing with ongoing symptoms for years that have progressed. I deal with daily brain fog lightheaded spells blurry vision off and on horrible short term memory loss fatigue unsteady when walking sometimes and shortness of breath. I’ve had tons of tests done including mri and no diagnosis... Is there a way I can post a picture of the mri?

[Stroud5393]

Cheek

[Stroud5393]

I’ve been dealing with progressing symptoms for years this has to be it because I’ve had so many other tests done and ruled out a lot of things. This all started back In like 2012 I started having like these spells where it felt like I was gonna black out which doctors claimed was panic attacks.

[selmaS]

Chiari can also cause us too have anxiety and not because we are anxious.......May I ask, did you have any trauma to your neck or head around the time the symptoms started or just prior?

[Stroud5393]

I was in a four wheeler wreck when I was 16. I rode a big hill and it came back on me. I had someone on the back that took a lot of the damage but it busted my face pretty bad got 13 stitches in my chew I and eyebrow.

[selmaS]

that could have triggered your condition /symptoms.....

[Stroud5393]

Yeah I’ve looked at so many mri pictures on the web and mine definitely doesn’t look like the normal ones. Couple things I haven’t mentioned which I didn’t think could be related was off and on nausea and diffulty swallowing. So this really could be chiari?  What do I do from here can I go straight to a neurosurgeon or do I have to go to a neurologist first?

[selmaS]

It depends on your medical insurance and how it mandates you handle specialists.

[Stroud5393]

Is this still active?

[selmaS]

Hi , sorry I didn't get back to you on this....I was in the hospital with my SIL taking care of her....I will take a look

[Stroud5393]

Does it look like chiari?

[Stroud5393]

Hey Selma I posted a photo of one of my pictures on my page. Its not a great one but doesn't my tonsils look low?  

[selmaS]

Not being a medical professional I can not say if you indeed have Chiari as that is the malformation of the skull and I do not know how to read a MRI for that, but it does appear to have a possible CSF obstruction due to a cerebral tonsil herniation.