New post-decompression headaches

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I had a posterior fossa decompression on November 27th, 2007 and had almost 7

full weeks

without any headache or headache related problems. I had no surgical

complications aside

from my body rejecting some of the sutures and spitting them out through the

incision site

(which was closed with staples).

About a two weeks ago I started to lose grip strength in both hands, especially

on my left,

but I was still feeling fine. Then, last week I started getting headaches

again, but completely

different than my classic chiari headache. It's a little higher up the back of

my head, it

pulses, throbs, is shooting pain at times, I can see my heart beat in my eyes, I

have incessant

ringing and buzzing in my ears and it tends to get worse when lying down.

Tylenol and

narcotics aren't helping, but NSAIDs (Aleve in particular) are helping.

What I'm wondering is if this could be inflammation from going back to work or

if there's

something else to blame. Has anyone had these kinds of headaches? Any ideas?

I have a call into my ns, but with the 3 day weekend I'm not sure when I'll get

a call back.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.