are these symptoms for chiari?

[scottwifey]

ok, I know I have chiari, and many other conditions, but here lately my memory is getting worse so I can't remember the little details of whats causing my symptoms.
Is ear pain common??? just sudden fast shooting pain that kind of starts from behind the ear?
Or when you turn your head a little fast and you get this pop in the back of your head and immediately after, the sensation of hot lava running up the back of your head to the top of it?
Or sudden changes in vision, like everything moves for just a second or two (no change in position). Or seeing stars when you look to the side. Extreme sensitivity to light (can be episodic).
Or when bending over or doing certain things, sometimes even just laying down, have this sudden feeling of pressure in your head (not a headache) and heart pounding, and ears feeling full....then subsiding when you change position or relax?

[selmaS]

Yes, a drop attack is from the chiari list of symptoms.... like I said mine were very diff from passing out as I have done both.....

[scottwifey]

Thank you all for your posts, I will look at the symptoms list again. Drop attacks? are they from Chiari?

[selmaS]

I was in NY, in Brooklyn on Flatbush Ave....it was May 28th of all days...lol....same date as my surgery only 2 yrs apart!!

It was scarier for my poor DD we went to NY together....and she had to drive home to PA...thru the tunnel with all the merging and not knowing what had happened to me....plus, she had no idea where she was going....and I was getting kinda woozy...and trying to give directions when u r in pain...I got a bad sprain of my left ankle and tore the meniscus in my right knee during the fall which resulted in 2 surgeries b4 my PFD....

[denverluv]

I still think that sounds so scary Selma. I mean, I know you are ok, but that would freak me out if that happened. My luck I would be in the midle of Wal-Mart all by myself.

[selmaS]

U never know, since we r all different u may experience something prior to a drop attack, I never did...just fell over.

My drs explained it to me like this...ur spinal cord carries electric impulses and when u flip a switch u can turn on and off the electric flow...u do not see the flip coming from looking at the lights...they just go out ....meaning if u r not the one to switch them off, the lights don't dim with out a dimmer switch....

Neway, I digress.....so a drop attack is like someone flipped the switch off and then back on...bcuz of the flow being off....ur legs couldn't hold u up, and u were unaware that it was even turned off, bcuz it cane back on....only it was a faulty connection at best ....all the circuits r mis directed, so u can not respond to stop from falling or say nething for a little while, but u r aware of what is going on.

I did feel extremely nauseated afterward.

I have fainted in the past, and u do feel that coming on...that is like having a dimmer switch.....

I hope that makes sense ?

[*Stormy*]

LOL no kidding...I would have taken mine back long ago!!!

I have all the symptoms you described too (or did). I hate the vision changing thing..mine happens a lot when I'm trying to read something especially if it's on a computer screen or TV and then my eyes just jerk away and back again...it makes me feel sick. I have been to many specialists about this and haven't got an answer except to tell me that my eyes don't flow smoothly...(really? No kidding..) Hopefully, ust not feeling alone will help you get through these things as they are unsettling at best :)

Take care
Carolyn

[denverluv]

HUH NO LIE LOL! :)

[scnhollins]

hmm..i've been having those "out of it" moments for a little while..it feels like i'm about to hit the floor..i just assumed it was a near drop attack...hmm..

i've had the blurry double vision thing for quite sometime.  sometimes it's like trying to look through "clear" plastic, the kind you would put up over your window during the wintertime, other times it's 2 of everything, sometimes it's both....just like christmas morning,  i never quite know what it's going to be, unfortunately don't have the receipt to take it back ...

cristina

[selmaS]

Hi...I did not have ne advanced warning of my drop attacks...in fact I felt fine.....no HA.....or should I say no bad HA, and no dizziness, no vision disturbances...nothing....I was standing there one minute and the next I was falling fully aware, but could not respond to attempt to stop myself.

When my peripheral vision goes I get  the look of if u have ur face against a window pain  or leaning against the car window.and it is raining out...that blurry watery vision...just in  my side views...very odd

"selma"

[scnhollins]

and they don't always pick convienent times to appear either!  i was walking back to my house from fishing with my husband in a nearby field when my perpheral vision went out.  it was all i could do to follow my husband's footsteps.  i literally had to force myself to focus on his feet to make my way home...very disoriently...i wonder if i could have made it home if i was by myself?! startling moment for me to say the least!  like looking through a long tunnel mixed with extreme dizzyness and weakness...btw, is this signs of a near drop attack anyone??
cristina

[denverluv]

Yes.  That was how I first was when I really noticed my symptoms.

[rod44]

I am with selma on this.....Yes, I do have the symptoms you describe....

Ray

[selmaS]

Hi...yes I get it..I always describe it as someone jabbing an icepick in my ear....

yup on the vision too...I get floaters...no peripheral vision at times...I get blank spots....

yup, yup and yup.

http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Neurological%20Disorders/List-Of-Chiari-Symptoms/show/1024?cid=186

The above thread is to a Health Page with a list of symptoms NS will accept,. but we do have a list that is far larger that is related to chiari...more of a manifesto than a list......


"selma"