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Post-Treatment => Post-Treatment => Topic started by: vicenza2010 on December 11, 2011, 06:30:26 am
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I am Italian so I apologize for my English.
In October 2010 I had 3 fraction of cyberknife for a 2,3x1,6x1,1 cm. acoustic neuroma. The neuroma showed sign of necrosis as of last MRI of september 2011.Three months ago I had a sudden onset of an hydrocephalus.The AN caused hydrocephalus because released proteins which interferes with the absorption of CSF fluid. This kind of hydrocephalus is a communicating type and it is called aresorptive hydrocephalus. I went into the ER and I had a CT scan done.
My husband was told the pressure in my head was to high and my ventricles were huge. I had a ventricoloperitoneal shunt put it. A programmable valve was inserted and adjusted at the intracranic pressure of 170.
May the removal of the neuroma alleviate the CSF pressure and restore the normal circulation/adsorption of CSF?
Thank you
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Hi
Hope everything is better now. I'm very curious to know, what were the symptoms?
Mauricio
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Hi Mauricio,
about a year later my cyberknife I had issues concerning walking.
My feet was moving as they were made of iron and the soil was like a big magnet.
These issues lasted for one or two hours and I made the mistake of thinking it was dizziness depending on the neuroma because the problem occurred just two times with an interval of about 2 weeks.
Then one day returning home I did not recognize the street where I live, the houses appeared to me as they were underwater and I had to sit on the sidewalk waiting for my husband who luckily was at home.
It was hydrocephalus.
After one week a neurosurgeon implanted a shunt on my head.
Two years later I had my neuroma removed and now I am deaf on my right side.
I do not complain but I would like to use a hearing aid now.
As the shunt has a magnet inside I don’t know if I could use one. The magnetic wave can interfere with the shunt.
I hope someone who has a similar experience could be of any help.