Re: complications from a spinal tap

[Guest guest]

,

You posed some excellent questions. I would love to get a look at your MRIs

from the ER. I think that they would show your Chiari condition, but please

understand, that it is frequently not mentioned by the radiologist who reads

them. And many doctors discount the condition as causing no symptoms.

But if your MRIs show no herniation before, and the drop of your cerebral

tonsils can be shown after...this is very significant.

I would advise you to get copies of all your MRIs right away. Look at them

for yourself, and you might want to send them to a neurosurgeon favored by

the group as a Chiari expert. Get their opinion.

To answer your question, yes Chiari can be acquired. It also is a condition

you are born with that manifests itself after events such as a minor car

accident, child birth or spinal taps.

Please keep us updated on your findings,

Beth