HOW MANY OF YOU CRY EASILY?

[selmaS]

Do you cry easy?....I know that our brainstems being elongated can add to this, but I am wondering how many have this problem.

[Rylanesmom]

I didn't even notice it was old...it was at the top so I tried to vote lol

[selmaS]

  Older threads the polls r timed and will time out....sorry....

But we can see just how many did respond and yes this is an issue as our brain stems  r compressed.

[Shannon12012]

YES! I cry over everything! good or bad I have always been very emotional.

[Rylanesmom]

Poll must be closed but yes I cry to easily too .... The worst is at work I hate when I can't control it

[MamboMom]

Omg so that's what is happening? Lol. I was starting to think I was losing it! I cry at the littlest things now! Yesterday in the car, I was bawling at the radio over nothing!  Most of the time it's a rediculously oversensitive response to something tiny....good thing I'm not the only one lol. (Or should I say CRY out loud! >.<)

[selmaS]

  Well ur mom is right in a sense, u r hyper sensitive as a result of having chiari and it is not something u can control or change.

I did notice post op it got worse for a while, but then leveled out....I avoid things I know will set me off or get up and leave the room, what ever I have to do to avoid crying  and looking like a goof : )

[littleone3611]

Yes I have always cried very easily and never knew why. Especially when I amstressed,or if someone yells at me. When I was diagnosed with. Chiari I looked it up on the internet and that's when I found out that that was one of the symptoms. It can be very frustrating because the more I try not to cry the more I start tearing up. My mother tells me I am to sensitive.

[nsalem656]

I just wanted to know why I was crying without being  able to stop when I'm extremely stressed.

[Rahe28]

My whole life I have always been over emotional. I cry for any reason, at length. I also am over emotional to the point that when I get mad, I get very mad, and if I get excited...very excited...etc. I never thought about the compression being the reason, but it does make sense. After I had my third child, my daughter I was put on anti depressants, because everyone said I was way too emotional, and that it must be post partum depression. I as put on Lexapro....and what a surprise ... it made it worse. THis is also about the same time that I started having various symotoms more often. I had them most of my life, but it was then that they became more noticeable, with nothing to blame them on. This makes sooooooo much sense, thanks for reposting this :)

[SG2]

I try not to cry.  My head hurts 10x worse than it already does once I start to cry.  It ***** because sometimes I WANT to cry...

[linnielou232]

Yes crying would be my #1 answer also.  I cried a lot before surgery, but it acturally was because it reliefed some of the pressure in my head.  People would ask me if I was o.k. and I would smile and say yes.  Just needed to let some stress out.  Now after surgery it has gotten better, but I have day's I cry and have regrets because I just want my life I had before back.  I am dealing with the acceptance of having Chairi and knowing I will have some bad day's, but now look forward to the good.  I think crying is good therapy.  I know it helps me feel better.   Tear's to a better day.
Linda :)

[selmaS]

  As u can see from the date, this is an older thread...the poll is no longer active.....

We have had discussions on this topic and it is the compression of the brain stem that can add to the overwhelming emotions.

  

[thrice3]

yes! when i'm stressed especially. and i just tend to avoid sad movies, emotional conversations, and making goofy singing voices because they WILL make me cry lol

[nsalem656]

I cry everytime I'm stressed where is the ability to vote on this one. I looked crying up and found this poll

[beaglefreak]

Oh my gosh is THAT what's going on?  Holy cow since my surgery in June I cry at EVERYTHING>.... sometimes things are just so beautiful, othertimes things are just so sad or touching.... wow.

[celticbreeze]

After my surgery, I started crying at the drop of a hat; I would go through a box of tissues during commericial that weren't sad, and my husband changes the channel and avoids movies with even 10 seconds of sadness.  The dr said that I would calm down in a few months.  If not, my husband is buying stock in Kleenex.

[bubbles0309]

yes i also have tethered cord idk its like a ying yang thing goes hand n hand i guess....but i wounder sometimes did i really have to go through all those surgeries?.....uh..i guess u can say its pretty fustratinq =(

[selmaS]

I started crying at work...I knew then something was wrong...it just waasn't typical me to cry like that....I feel it had gotten worse over time...na dhas not gotten better after surgery....I still cry very easy.

[Zenji]

I hate it when I start crying at the doctors office...in try so hard to hold it in but when i am there its like someone turned on a faucet in my head. after my first surgery my doctor said i couldn't play football or any other contact sports i hadn't played football in at least three years but i just started crying he just looked at me weird then said his pager was going off. it was so embarrassing

[Lovage]

I have noticed that i have cried more after surgery.  I do not know why but it seems to be worse.  Before surgery i barely cried and now i can not stop from crying especially at the doctors or after a doctor appointment.  

[selmaS]

How about sad songs.....wow...and funerals for people I really didn't know well...I can get going and look like I am the widow....it can get bad...I try and avoid those situations.

[MaraFowler]

Gotta love those "allergies" right? =]
When I was in school I started crying because the teacher asked me for my homework and I didn't have it done.. from then on I was known as "the crybaby" TV, Movies, and books also get me going... cried like a baby throughout the last harry potter book...

[Zenji]

I find myself crying at commercials sometimes...some days i cry at just about anything and other days I don't. I never actually thought it could be related but now that I think about it I have always been that way. Even when I was a child I remember people said I would cry if they walked up behind me and said boo. It actually gets aggravating but most of the time I can come up with a pretty good excuse.

[MaraFowler]

I cry at the drop of a hat.. when I get angry or sad... the waterworks just come rushing on in.. and then my head hurts even more afterward... I've been crying a lot more recently as I'm still dealing with acceptance of what is going on with me..
I got to thinking that this is almost worse than someone finding out they have cancer.. because that at least is cureable.. people know what it is and understand.. and at least if something goes wrong...they have some warning... and they can get chemo and the treatments and can be ok for the rest of their lives. I know it's not the same thing and cancer can be life threatening.. but idk it just seems much more grim than that.
Does that make sense at all?