NeuroTalk Support Groups - Can adult trauma hydrocephalus go away untreated

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Originally Posted by dvora65 (Post 794444)

well - i guess this question badly -
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i had an incident where i broke the bathyub with my head -- among other things !
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i am not a good candidate for shunting - so i wenthrough several courses of pt and did improve quite a bit -
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the almost daily headaches and my continuing to injure myself are not manageable for me -
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i was hoping to find was a way to manage myself nore effectively --
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the medical sites i searched had nothing positive to say about not treating - or shunting -
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is this really potentially fatal if left untreated ?
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thanks for your help --- dvora

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ok - the neuro went over my old reports and films and the new ones too - did a physical exam --
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even had me spell words - backwords--
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results --- ms has progressed -- hydrocephalus progressed but not drastically --
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cognitive deterioriation mor rapid -- probably why i cannot figure out this posting board --
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vision is worse too --
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now i also have fibromyalgia !
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so i will go there and read about it -- like i need something els -- i had been blaming that pain on the ms--
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so to answer my original question -- it is possible but unlikely to die from untreated hydrcephalus --
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but - not suddenly -- if it gets much worse there are more invasive treatments they can do -
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so i can stop fixating on that !
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thanks for this group being here ---
shalom from dvora