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Post-Treatment => Post-Treatment => Topic started by: Mia on November 19, 2007, 03:47:11 am

Title: High pressure inside the head???
Post by: Mia on November 19, 2007, 03:47:11 am

Hello

Have someone taken a CT to check the pressure in the head?
I have to do that and is a little nervous.
Hope everything is ok, and if not, what do they do about it?

Mia

Title: Re: High pressure inside the head???
Post by: Jeff on November 19, 2007, 12:46:07 pm

Hi Mia,
Excessive pressure called hydrocephalus is caused by too much fluid in the brain. I had this after my surgery due to blood that blocked the flow of the fluid. I got a shunt that solved the problem. The shunt was installed in a second surgery. It drains fluid from the brain down into the abdomen. You can read about hydrocephalus here: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hydrocephalus/hydrocephalus.htm#What_is (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hydrocephalus/hydrocephalus.htm#What_is)
Jeff

Title: Re: High pressure inside the head???
Post by: eugd on November 28, 2007, 07:16:45 pm

if your not allergic to sulfa maybe the doctor can put you on diamox to decrease CFS production? or do some lumbar tap to decreae some cfs fluid before you put in a shunt. 

Title: Re: High pressure inside the head???
Post by: Mia on December 01, 2007, 06:13:20 am

Hello

Have taken CT and it showed no pressure in head. Thats good.
According to the doctor I just have to take the time to help.
Really hopes the symptoms will go away by the time, so I can be able to live my life as I am jused to.
Must say that I didn`t expected to have it like this after the GK treatment. I am probably one of the few who gets a lot
of symptoms after GK. I have asked the doctors to let me try some steroids to help me with the symptoms, but
they wont. They say it is not usual to use steriods.

Mia