Author Topic: CFL Prevention  (Read 1987 times)

Sailfish

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CFL Prevention
« on: August 19, 2017, 03:40:19 pm »
I am new to this and still learning about recovery.  I am less than two months from my surgery date but want to try and improve my odds of avoiding CFL.

I'm not even sure of the right questions to ask.  I know Dr's want you up walking after surgery I get that.  But once released is it advisable to be mostly inactive the next 7-10 days to allow for more healing?

Would appreciate any and all advice.
6/23/17  3.2cm  Facial numbness and tingling  Tinnitus 2012 
Surgery with Drs. Cunningham and Zomorodi at Duke - upcoming

ANSydney

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Re: CFL Prevention
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2017, 06:44:01 pm »
Keep you head up. Don't bend over to tie your shoes until a week or two has passed. When lying down, it good to keep you head up. Don't blow your nose for the first week or two.

LakeErie

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Re: CFL Prevention
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2017, 05:12:22 pm »
Do not lift anything that requires effort, you do not want to increase intracranial pressure. I contracted bronchitis days after surgery and coughing with a CSF nasal leak is a nightmare, just one example of increasing ICP. That said, most CSF leaks resolve with conservative measures according to my then neurosurgeon who had done 1000 skull base tumor surgeries (2011) My leak resolved quickly once the bronchitis was over
4.7 cm x 3.6 cm x 3.2 cm vestibular schwannoma
Simplified retrosigmoid @ Cleveland Clinic 10/06/2011
Rt SSD, numbness, vocal cord and swallowing problems
Vocal cord and swallowing normalized at 16 months. Numbness persists.
Regrowth 09/19/2016
GK 10/12/2016 Cleveland Clinic
facial weakness Jan 2017

ANSydney

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Re: CFL Prevention
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2017, 05:52:56 pm »
You wouldn't want to have constipation with a potential CSF situation :-)