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Glad to hear your uncle improved! Would you mind sharing the other two hypotheses and what the diagnosis ultimately was?
by jskrn 8mo ago
Glad to hear your uncle improved! Would you mind sharing the other two hypotheses and what the diagnosis ultimately was?
- mlmonkey 8mo agoThe first was "dementia" (or something related to it, I don't remember the exact medical term). The second was something to do with fluid in some spinal column (I am sorry once again, I do not remember the medical term; they operated on him to drain it, which is why I remember it). I don't remember the third one, unfortunately.
- kypen 8mo agoPerhaps a CSF leak due to a dural sack tear in the spine? Was his symptom only having headaches while standing? Happened to my wife. 6 weeks of absolute hell. On second thought — the opposite. A bulge/blockage of CSF?
- antisthenes 8mo agoApparently, as I've recently learned due to a debilitating headache, CSF pressure (both high and low) can cause a whole host of symptoms, ranging from mild headache and blurred vision to coma and death. It's pretty wild that a doctor wouldn't have that as a hypothesis.