leg weakness

[bbisweary]

Hi Everyone.  I was wondering if it is common to have severe leg weakness with CM?  I have had leg stifnness, ie, scooting, dragging a leg, etc. off and on for several years now.  But, for the last few months I have been having this weakness in my legs that causes my whole body to feel weak.  I have a small syrinx that has developed since my appt. w/ Dr. Di in April, could that cause it?  I'm really hoping I don't have something else going on.

Thanks,

Becky

[Heather2414]

It's been fixed.

[selmaS]

  You may have a security setting to friends or for yourself to see as I can not see them...I can tell you posted 6 pic....but not one is visible.

[Heather2414]

There up and there my own MRI,found out today how to do it this is the brand new mri I had done today...

[selmaS]

  You can post a picture on your profile page and let me know it is there and I will look at it to see if it is something I am familiar with.....

So the surgery was a back surgery not Chiari decompression surgery.....on the same page with you now....

Find a true Chiari specialist....if you have nerve damage from that surgery, there is no way to correct it...

Yes I have seen the decompression surgery help those with foot drop too....the biggest problem is you were dealing with Drs that were not well informed or experienced with Chiari....and giving you info that is not correct either....Age has nothing to do with Chiari and it's symptoms as there are children having surgery....so right off you know those Drs were not informed.

Post your pic and let me know when it is up.

[Heather2414]

Is there a way I can send you a picture???The website I was talking to you about that was causing the foot drop and they said it was the Chiari I have a question about the picture there showing...

[Heather2414]

They saw the Chiari before the back problem maybe 2 to 3 years before they found my back,they told me the Chiari wasn't nothing to worry about til I got in my 30-40s or if I started to get really bad headaches and part of my face going numb.The doctor we got for my back dr scared us straight away with the back issue we didn't even ask him about the Chiari..But they are a few problems with that dr. that there is a good chance I didn't need the surgery that they put basket and rods in my back witch was a fusion..I'm just wondering if the nerve damage and the foot drop could be all from the Chiari since now its looking like I didn't need the fusion they did,not many drs know about the Chiari where I live and the ones that know a little about them say the Chiari can't cause the foot drop..But I have a website stating from childrens hospital that 2 kids I believe had an on set of foot drop and also had the Chiari and they did surgery and the foot drop got better I guess there isn't much on it,I'm sure now its too late for my foot drop to get better and with the fusion I might not needed with the drs cutting into nerves and such even if they say now the Chiari is bad I'm thinking now its to late for the foot drop to get better its probably been 10 years since it started,maybe 8 years what do you think?? Could it get better?? If its the Chiari??