Hi, I am new to all of this, so bare with me. Over the years as I look back, I have had symptoms most of my life, I just thought it was normal or unrelated, I never thought it was anything like this, but it is recently that things have taken a turn for the worse. It is also difficult to explain to my husband that I really am having a problem, I have my good days and some really bad ones. The worst was over thanksgiving I went into the ICU. I am really frustrated, I feel slowed down and I have kids.
I have had a few MRI's done, the ones that I had done before the ICU showed 8mm, when I was in the ICU they said the one they did showed 12mm, the flow study shows more than 2 times the normal pressure. I have been trying to educate myself on whats happening to me, but I still dont know what all this means. What are normal measurements? How abnormal are these? Should I be experiencing the extreme symptoms that I am? Symptoms being, extreme insomnia, meaning awake for up to a week long with out massive medication, extreme fatigue (meds or no meds, sleep or no sleep), headaches so bad I cant move, nausea, vomitting, blurred vision, double vision, muscle weakness in arms and legs, dizziness, pressure tension, could this be causing my deppression? Is it possible for this to cause my epilepsy (no seizures since earlier this year)?
I go to see the NS on my bday, Jan 4th, it seems forever away, how long after a consultation with a NS do they schedule surgery (they are telling me I will need it) what is the recovery like? Does it help in the long run? I cant keep living on pain pills, nausea meds, and confined to a walker at age 29, with 3 kids. I dont always need it but on my bad days I have to.
Sorry for so long and so many questions but my mind is going a million miles an hour, any help would be very much appreciated.