I had an arachnoid cyst and was in horrible pain, vomiting, loosing balance and many other issues. Long story short it was found by a spin doctor having me get an MRI for my neck and didn't pay attention to the first thing listed on the report. It said "large fossa cyst with mass effect on the cerebellum, he sent me to physical therapy I went 4 times and I told the therapist every time he did traction it caused the right I ide of my face and head to go numb he said to call my Doctor because something else was going on. I went to the doctor and he told me he had good news and bad news, good was he could fix my neck, bad news was "you have alarge cyts on your btain stem and I don't know how I missed it" but you need to see a neurosurgeon. . Well I was a single mom at the time and could not take time off I ended up in the ER admitted had surgery on tuesday and went home thursday had some PT and went back to work 3 weeks later. I had all of my symptoms for 41/2 years. My neurosurgeon is Dr. Derek Duke he is in Henderson which is on the outskirts of Las Vegas. He is an amazing doctor. My brain surgery was in 2003, he also did my neck fusion about 5 years ago. I hope anyone out there gets the best doctor. Never give up I was told for 41/2 years all of my complaints were in my head, I was just fat, needed to exercise blah blah blah. I just kept going to different doctors. I wish everyone the best. Never give up. Ok sorry it was not so short but that is just a snippet of what happened to me. If anyone has guestions for me I will be checking back here. Thanks for listening. I hope this will help someone. I had many more symptoms.
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I had an arachnoid cyst and was in horrible pain, vomiting, loosing balance and many other issues. Long story short it was found by a spin doctor having me get an MRI for my neck and didn't pay attention to the first thing listed on the report. It said "large fossa cyst with mass effect on the cerebellum, he sent me to physical therapy I went 4 times and I told the therapist every time he did traction it caused the right I ide of my face and head to go numb he said to call my Doctor because something else was going on. I went to the doctor and he told me he had good news and bad news, good was he could fix my neck, bad news was "you have alarge cyts on your btain stem and I don't know how I missed it" but you need to see a neurosurgeon. . Well I was a single mom at the time and could not take time off I ended up in the ER admitted had surgery on tuesday and went home thursday had some PT and went back to work 3 weeks later. I had all of my symptoms for 41/2 years. My neurosurgeon is Dr. Derek Duke he is in Henderson which is on the outskirts of Las Vegas. He is an amazing doctor. My brain surgery was in 2003, he also did my neck fusion about 5 years ago. I hope anyone out there gets the best doctor. Never give up I was told for 41/2 years all of my complaints were in my head, I was just fat, needed to exercise blah blah blah. I just kept going to different doctors. I wish everyone the best. Never give up. Ok sorry it was not so short but that is just a snippet of what happened to me. If anyone has guestions for me I will be checking back here. Thanks for listening. I hope this will help someone. I had many more symptoms.
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