Hey yall. I had a distal shunt revision on tuesday(12/2) of this week. I came home wednesday. I've been really sore because the tubing from the bottom of the valve down to the pleural cavity was all changed out and re-routed. Anyways, starting today, I've noticed that when I turn my head(its still stiff and sore) or when I press down on my neck at the base of the valve where about the middle of my incision is, it makes kind of a squishy sound, like when you press on a soaking wet towel. Its really weird. After hearing that for the first time I pressed lightly around the valve and it does that there too. Anyone had this happen or heard of it? I'm not sure what to do. I have an appt with my neuro in about 2 weeks to get my stitches out so I can always ask him then, but I wanted to know if anyone here had any ideas! Thanks guys! ~Melissa~

hi melissa.
i had my VP shunt revised in september,
i found my head making funny noises, like when i tipped my head upside down to wash my hair, this continued for a few weeks but i dont get it anymore.

when you had your shunt converted, did you have the valve changed to a different pressure, mine was change from a low pressure to ahigh pressure, so what im assuming is that where my head was once full of fluid there was all of a sudden a lot more space for the fluid to squish around due to the change.

Hey Jaidee, as far as I know my pressure wasn't adjusted this time. The sound I'm not getting anymore, but since I got home on Wednesday, I've woken up every day with a severe headache. Hard to tell if I would of had one the day after my surgery in the hospital cause I was on morphine. But anyways, I'm wondering if its all connected somehow. I put a call into my neuro cause of the headaches and his nurse told me that if they keep happening in the next day or two that I need to come into the ER and get a CT scan.

Hey yall just an update. My neuro said that the squishy thing was caused by air still being in the tubing. The headaches were a whole other story. It was got so bad over the days after I posted that I ended up in the emergency room throwing up and having a horrible headache around midnight on early Tuesday morning(tuesday made it exactly a week since I had had my distal shunt revision). Anyways, as usual they gave me meds, a ct scan and shunt series, and admitted me. I saw my neuro after I was admitted tuesday morning as he was deciding what do cause both came back fine. He decided on a ct of my chest as the xray wasn't too clear. Well the ct showed that the catheter had come out of my chest and was resting just under my skin, so the pressure was backing up causing the headaches and some swelling I had had around my collar bone at the shunt tubing track. Anyways, he fixed that on wednesday and I came home on friday. Haven't had any really bad headaches, just the lingering one from the backed up pressure that is still dispersing. Anyways, just wanted to update yall!

Yep! I had this happen to me back in 1999. I had two revisons that week. (Only because my NS didn't want me to go home with him knowing I would be back in the next few months following. He's that kind of NS. Doesn't let things go unless they are done right.

Feel better soon!

Hey SJP! Glad to know I'm not the only one its happened to! Thanks, I'm feeling lots better already except for the pain from the incision and slight lingering headache!

Melissa... Please don't take this lightly. I was sort of warning you. This squishiness (at least in my case) was not normal. I am not sure what it was, but it lead up to a replacement of the smaller tube due to a blockage.

I never asked because I was too out of it still and I didn't think of it until now, to be honest.
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If you get help for it can you ask about the squishiness...? What caused it?