Is sqad around...

[ummmm]

Well...are you???? Is he????

[Sqad]

Yepp

[Sqad]

ummmm....have to go now, see you in the morning.

[ummmm]

Hiya...want to ask you a question but have limited details.

My friends daughter aged 3 has been suffering servere headaches for the last 6 months. She been for scans and today a doctor phoned her mother (not the initial doctor as she's on holiday) he said she has 'chiari deformailty type 1' or it could be 'chiari malformation type 1'...she wasn't sure.

Anyway...he told her not to google it and that he'd phoned Oxford and said she needs to go for scans on her spine.

Any idea....we have a very worried mother???

Cheers :-)

[pericat]

But what are you around Sqad ??

[tamborine]

I see the profiles have gone; mine was M with an unknown name.....hence my comment this morning.

Dont like this new layout!

[tiggerblue10]

Why did he tell her not to google it Ummmm? I think I would want to know what it is I'm dealing with if I was her.

[ummmm]

I know...I haven't googled it either. I presume because it could throw up info that might send her into a panic. I asked sqad as he knows the medical jargon. The doctor obviously doesn't want her jumping to false conclusions....the web can be nightmare for wrong diagnosis...

[ummmm]

The doctor did say that she had 'tilted base of the brain, that's it's tilted to the left hand side'

Her Uncle died at the age of three...some 40 years ago though...with the same symptoms.

[Sqad]

ummmm Good morning my darling. Almost certainly NBD.

Arnold-Chiari malformation various types depending upon the severity. It is a bony abnormality between the base of the skull and the first cervical verterbra, which might or might not be associated with neurolgical symtoms.
As I said, varying degrees, but may often remain symptomless.

MRI scans of the base of the skull will determine severity.

I understand the worry that surrounds all involved, but it is likely to be not as bad as thought. In simple English, NBD until proved otherwise.

[ummmm]

Thanks Sqad...I presume that's why he said not to google it. I'll let you know how she gets on xx

[Sqad]

ummmm another name for it is Basi-Occiput.........Google it if you want.