I just wanted to say that I am so glad I found this forum and I would love to give a giant hug to the person who started it. I thought I was nuts, and I think that my husband does too. I started having numbness in my left arm and leg and head pressure, as the most common of symptoms, along with others that come and go (dizziness, vertigo, trouble swallowing, pain in my neck and limbs) and the list goes on. After seeing my GP I had an MRI where they happened to find a mild Chiair malformation. I have no idea of the mm because I didn't know to ask. Through all of this, I tried to explain my symptoms to my huband, and I think I thought I might be making it up, and then when I saw the neurologist, I really feel like he blew off most of what I was telling him. He said that my arm and leg being numb, should not be caused by the Chiari and that he thinks it is something else. He also blew of the list of symptoms I had written down saying that 'Everyone feels this way some of the time'. Jerk Face!!!!! I would not be in there if the things I were feeling were normal, people feel this way some of the time things.
Anyway, I didn't mean that to turn into a rant, but it did. I am just glad to know that there are people out there who know what I am going through, and are having, or have had, the same frustrations. :D It makes me feel less like a crazy person. Before I read these pages, I had convinvced myself I was making it up. I am lucky, I don't have much pain or terrible headaches, all of the time, but these things do cycle in and out. That is the part that I was most glad to see. Even the neurologist thinks that the pains and feeling should all be persistent if they are to be really considered, but I disagree, and it looks like I am not alone in that either.
Oh well :D I am just glad to have found you all and at least it seems, that I am on the right track by seeing someone to at least get this mess started, even if I eventually have to go and see someone else.
Thanks
Lydelia