Thread:ImLola/@comment-33002749-20180507012617

I read your post about your health and I'm sorry to hear you are not feeling very well right now. I'm still not convinced that you don't have the somewhat rare condition that I have, but an MRI of your head and/or neck would have shown it and a radiologist/neurologist would/should have known what it was. It is just that your symptoms mimic mine so closely.

I have a condition called Chiari Malformation Type I. The easiest/simplest way to describe it is that your brain is too big for your head, or your head is too small for your brain. This causes pressure on your brain and makes it look for a way to make more room for itself. There is a small part in the back of your head that is supposed to be empty, but when you have Chiari, the pressure pushes the cerebral tonsils into that space and if that space is still not enough room it can push them onto the spinal cord causing pressure there and other problems.

Anyway, you can go all your life and never have symptoms, or have symptoms and never know what it is because if you are like me you just think that what you have is normal and everyone is the same as you. Until you learn you have this thing and you find out about the symptoms and realize that if you had mentioned things much earlier in life maybe this would have been fixed earlier. It can cause bad migraines, vertigo - I get terrible vertigo, but only when I'm sitting or lying down, never when standing, and when I cough my head hurts so bad I have to squeeze it just to stop the pain. I see little lights floating around whether my eyes are opened or closed when I cough or sneeze or when my migraines are really bad, and right before the vertigo starts. I also suffer from ringing in my ears several times a day, but always in just one ear at a time, and always different pitches throughout the day. And I suffer from photophobia - not being able to tolerate bright lights - like sunlight.

Does any of this sound like what you are suffering from? Diane 