Mom has a Cavernous Angioma, do I have it too?

Hello everyone. I'm a 27 year old female with 3 children. My mother was diagnosed with a Cavernous Angioma a few years back. She was having seizures her entire life but was misdiagnosed as being hypoglycemic. My question is, are my symptoms something that I should worry about? I read somewhere that if her CA is familial, then my chance of having one (or more) is 50/50. Those odds are scary. I'll list the strange symptoms I have below. Thanks for taking the time to read this! :)

1. Vision going black when I stand up. (could be a blood pressure problem but it could also be baroreceptor problem and I have no idea if that's something in the brain that a CA could be effecting.)

2. Legs giving out randomly when I'm walking. (My legs will actually feel like they're filling with air and it doesn't hurt, it just feels wrong. When it happens, I have to stop and either sit, kneel or lean on something. It's so hard to describe)

3. Staring fits. I know what's going on around me but I can't move or stop staring. These can last anywhere from 5 seconds to 5 minutes.

4. Random twitching in my legs or arms.

5. Sometimes when I go to bed at night, I feel like I'm shrinking. I know, it sounds really strange but that's the only way to describe this. I feel like I'm really tiny and my bed is huge.

6. Pain in my head. This isn't like a normal headache (that I've experienced). It starts behind and below my left ear and shoots up to the top of my head. It's a really sharp, stabbing pain that repeats a few times and goes away. It makes me squint and it hurts really bad.

If you're wondering why I haven't visited a Doctor for this yet, it's because I (like many Americans) have no health insurance. It ***** but the internet can be pretty informative if you know where to look. :) Anyway, thanks again!

[tabitha_kristen]

I hope I posted this in the right area.