anyone reading to response, please be patient, never done this before. I had a C1-C-2 Laminectomy & Decompression Chiari w/Doral Reconstruction on June 15, 2010. I was in ICU for three days, barely remember. I went home the fourth day. did everything neuro surgeon told me to do. for the last couple of weeks my symtoms came back but worse. My doctor put me on different types of pain medicine kept telling why am I having all these problems. She kept telling me it was not my Chiari. My last comment to her was I did not say it was. I know she fixed me, but why is she fighting me and telling what is the problem. I am getting an mri and xray on Monday.
my symtoms are tingling on the right side of my head followed by numbness behind the ear then comes the pain of the century. if feels like heavy pressure crawling up my skull. Sometimes I have to lay down for a couple of hours for the pain to stop. Sometimes when I'm work and they start feel sick.