Hiya,

re; Brain-stem auditory evoked responses.


Anyone else had this done while they had an MVD?

I went today for my pre-admissions check and the baselines for the brain stem monitoring. The pre-op check was very very thorough - poked and prodded every part of me!!!

The baselines were done with electrodes - two on the top of my head and one behind each ear. They monitor the autitory response and another thing which has a "spread" when there is a compression which goes when decompression occurs!

The test was a very loud rapid click in each ear separately for 5 mins - you had to stay very relaxed which was very difficult with my bad side as the noise trigged a mega attack, it hurt SO much! Luckily my pain management techniques worked ok and I stayed relaxed - what an achievement! This meant that they got great results straight away, often they have to do this over and over!! Phew.

SO I was wondering if anyone else had had this before? I didn't for my last 2 op's!

Niki xxx