From my research, that is the common thing that wakes the sleeping giant. The Tarlov Cyst Foundation is a great educational tool. I rec. you read all the material there. Don't let doctors tell you it isn't a possible cause!! Mine were found when I had a very large sequestered disc at L5 S1. As usual, they were an "incidental finding". A year and three months later of slowly getting worse, a new MRI revealed they were larger and a doctor actually acknowledged they could be a problem. I am going to see Dr. Feigenbaum in Dallas next week. I am not a person with unlimited resources to go there from Ohio, I am a person who wants to leave no stone unturned so I don't have to feel like I'm sitting on one the rest of my life! The neurosurgeon who did the microdiscectomy said there wasn't anything more he could do for me, with his smug look on his face. I told him I refused to accept that this is as good as it gets and I will keep searching and doing whatever I can do. I do my best to stay positive, laugh, enjoy what I can and not give up. Sometimes it makes you tired but what choice do you have? Keep researching. Hm. That means you search and search again! We are blessed to have so much information available to us via the internet. Imagine what we would know with out it? not much if left up to the vast majority of the medical community. Also thanks to the the Tarlov Cyst Foundation, there is a voice crying out in the wilderness for us!! Now GO! Don't Give Up!



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