[ShastaBear]

After a very minor accident in which I had no obvious trauma. Two days later I began to experience disequilibrium for which my wife took me to the hospital. About an hour later I could not walk at all. This persisted for three days after which I could walk only with a cane. I had to stop taking certain medicines which produced dizziness. I had taken them for years without difficulty but I can no longer do so.

I took MRI and CT scans in the hospital and in the office of a private neurologist. I have a pronounced asymmetry in my vessicles and some hydrocephaly neither of which is supposed to affect me.

I get along ok but if I close my eyes I will fall down. I cannot walk in tandom. I cannot stand on one foot. I certainly cannot participate in some activities I used to do. However, if I take anxiety meds I cannot walk at all.

This is not the worst thing that has happened to me by any means but it has been a mystery to the doctors........and I am uneasy with being a medical mystery.

Anyone else have something like this?

Shasta

[HopeHunter]

I get along ok but if I close my eyes I will fall down.

It's usually calls sensitive ataxia. Do your doctor test you for fisicall skill like romberg prove, babinsky test and so on, which may show wrong or not brain stem or cerebellum?

Or hydrocephaly is approved diagnose?

[jackie66]

It possibly depends on just what the accident was.

[ShastaBear]

Originally Posted by HopeHunter

It's usually calls sensitive ataxia. Do your doctor test you for fisicall skill like romberg prove, babinsky test and so on, which may show wrong or not brain stem or cerebellum?

Or hydrocephaly is approved diagnose?

They performed the tests you mentioned and various others. Other tests ruled out Meniers Disease, stroke and normal pressure hydrocephalus. There was also no evidence of cerebellar involvement. The report of the assymetical ventrical mentioned "cortical atrophy." However, they believed it had been there for a long time. When given mental tasks I was not able to count backwards by sevens, remember who the president preceding the then current president, nor could I with closed eyes touch the tip of my nose with my index finger.

[Jomar]

Car accident.. what parts of your body had the trauma?

just because it isn't obvious at the time or right away..doesn't mean that no injury happened.

head/neck/shoulder??
possible upper cervical misalignment {c1/c2} or {also called atlas /axis}
http://www.upcspine.com/self.htm

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