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Originally Posted by jadiee-x
Hi Floridahydrowoman
I strongly suggest you do get a shunt.
I have one myself, and Ive had mine since I was a toddler.
Having being told you have hydrocephalus, without the surgery for a shunt, you should expect some dreadful headaches as pressure rises more and more.
A shunt is there to prevent the pressure rises, of course they do come with complications, like blockage and infection.
If your shunt was to block, then i assume you would be in the position you are in now. If there were an infection, thats something new, and should there be a big infection, it can leave you in a nasty way.
If your pressure inside your head was to continue to rise, you could be damaging your brain, just of of it as two balloons being pumped up inside your brain, the more they get pumped up the more pressure on the inside of the brain. The shunt will give the fluid a pathway to drain away and relieve any build up.
Just for your information :P, I came back from Florida this morning, and back to the miserable UK  |
Hi Jadiee-X,
Thanks for your kind reply. I am glad to know that you were visiting. And I wish one day I can visit Europe and of course UK.
Going back to your reply, I currently have dreadful headaches, and they are getting worse. I got a previous infections, a spinal meningitis and it was horrendous, but I am still going and moving on. Then, I was diagnosed with this Hydrocephalus problem.
I was hoping after the previous surgeries and even after the meningities that everything was going to stop there, but it was not like that.
I have always being a strong woman, but for some reason, I guess the last experience, I have became a full of worries one.
It is my understanding that if I go for the VP Shunt, I will always have to have it inside of me, and probably have it removed, replaced, etc. Therefore, in and out, in and out of hospitals and Operations Rooms.
I would like to know if you don't mind, if you have it replaced, what kind of problems it caused to you and if after the surgery were you able to perform
a normal life, meaning, go back to school, or work, walking, thinking, etc.
I am blessed to have been able to find this website and other people with the same kind of issues or very similar. It feels like, no matter how much I speak with friends or family, they don't get what I feel, and how much I worry for. To deal with a new scenario completely.
Thanks again and I hope you feel much better and take care of yourself.
