mood swings

Question

i use to be very verbal, after i fell  i stoped, i let things go , and recently i find myself exploding. over little things. is this normal behavior ?

selmaS · Answer

Hi and welcome to the Chiari forum.

 How long is ur mom on the med and what is it? How long since her other surgery? Was it a full decompression with laminectomy and duraplasty?

 There are related conditions that may be affecting ur mom...not knowing more about her it is hard to suggest...when was her last MRI?

 It may be the med, it may be a related condition, it may be the first surgery failed....hard to say.

proudmommy2010 · Answer

My mom has a very bad case of chiari. The doctor has put her on new medication in hopes it dulls the pain even a slight bit. 

Since being on this medicine she has been blowing up about things.  Even telling my dad they are not ok anymore. The only thing that has changed is her medicine. 

The doctors want her to have another surgery and possibly see the specialist in Chicago.  But she is afraid to have another surgery because of how painful the first. One was.  

Is there any asvicw as to how we can help her and/or how we can deal with the blow ups? We are there for her 100% always ans even though we don't tell her. .. but we know its her medicine. 

Advice please.  :(

selmaS · Answer

The more stress and pressure we r under the worse our anxiety and moods can get...I noticed as I worked 70 plus hrs a week and being so tired the more my employer wanted from me, the more the pressure the more I felt like I was going to lose it too...

 I went to shrinks, and was given prozac, u name it all the Drs wanted to do was put a band-aid on it with out much work, to me it seemed like what ever the popular med was at the time is what they were giving me...

SFreeman486 · Answer

My drs attribute my anxiety/mood swings to having an anxiety disorder..but after reading all this, I understand why the medication doesnt work. Its really cool to know that we can talk about all this without feeling judged since we are all in the same boat. My family thinks Ive gone insane...they just dont get it.

Crys86 · Answer

I'm like you guys.. I use to be happy and cheerful. More recently I have been really snappy over stupidly minor things. I just blurt it out without thinking first and then feel terrible later, but I can't seem to help myself. I even had my best friend tell me, "your mood on this day, would gladly make me go to war with you.. many lives would be lost." (He's a nerd). But the point of it being.. yeah I feel you. I am a crybaby too now. It's embarrassing because I spend half my nights at work hiding in the corner crying because I hurt, and then have my supervisor notice and take me to the office and make me sit down, whereas I tend to cry worse, from embarrassment, making my head hurt worse, which makes me cry harder about how I wish I was normal and didn't hurt. Never ending chain process once I start. It's frustrating..

selmaS · Answer

Me too...lol...Never would be the one to cry especially at work and I was brought to tears at work b4 I had surgery....really disliked showing that side....but it is far worse now as if I go to a funeral I can have the widow comforting me...ugh...so I avoid going. I can not control it.

sandy629 · Answer

omg Selma,  we were raised not to cry, so i RARELy  cry, since the surgey  i have turned into a Hallmark cryer. my brothers have said it's not like you to cry, the always called me the ice princess, now i am a sobing cracker case lol

selmaS · Answer

Ditto to the above posters....

 Chiari can and will affect everything about us, our nerves, so we have pain, and our emotions will be like a roller coaster...

If u use the search this community feature u will find many more threads on this topic.

  We tend to cry easy over silly Hallmark commercials and do tend to get hot under the collar....lol...

 This is from brain stem compression and all the nerves being impinged.....

irislita · Answer

mmmhhh...i agree with dana....chiari thing.I can be from very happy to really upset in 1min.and I do explode so much.I always did...and nobody neither me did ever understand...but lately the tension of doctor visits and stuff made it worse

Sexybare · Answer

I would say this is chiarian normal. I do the same only I don't let things go, they build up inside. No one else quite understands what we face daily and sounds like you may be stuck in anger stage with me?!