Hello everyone, my journey began 5/16. I went to ER for bronchitis which I have often, this time I had the worse headache of my life. I went for a ct scan results came back as 3.8 cm x 1.9 cm collection along the left frontal convexity. There is beveling of the adjacent calvaruim. This represents an arachnoid cyst in an unusual location.
6/7 went for mri without/with contrast results for that shocked me because there was so much more. 4.5 cm oval lateral to the left frontoparietal lobe, thinning of tue skull with pressure necrosis from chronic arachnoid cyst. There is a small arachnoid cyst anterior to the right temporal lobe. There is punctate focus of increased T2 and Flair within the subcortical white matter of the left occipital lobe, incidental finding of gliosis. A partially empty sella turcica is suggested.
Which brings me to now, yesterday 7/10 went to see neurosurgeon he pretty much said come back 8/2 and tell me if you are going to go through with surgery. I'm not sure what to do I mean it's brain surgery. Has anyone else here had a cyst in the same area? Did you have it removed? Did you have positive results from surgery? It's so hard to know what the right thing to do, I'm a 29 yr old mom of one, single and had to move back home with my mom and dad because I don't feel like working.I want my life back instead of headaches. I'm looking foward to hearing from you guys its nice to have someone to talk to and the extra support