Please excuse the fact this is tik tok but its science and its my brain!

I was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation in I think June or July. Life has been a blur since then. I was going to have brain surgery to remove my c2, c2, 2cm of my skull, and have my dira cut open (the sack that goes around the brain and holds spinal fluid) and patched back together but looser but then had to have my gallbladder out in an emergency first. Then I had brain surgery August 5th. Ive made posts before of the science side of it and of my own incision but this is BY FAR the best video I've ever seen to explain the condition!

A lot more people have chiari than realized. It was only discovered in the late 1800s in a cadaver when the bone opening where the spinal cord can go to the brain was too big and the brain was being squished down the spinal column. Symptoms can be a ton of different things but the main one is intense headaches. Mine got so bad that I had to threaten my dr to send me in for an mri or cat scan because he kept telling me I was having stress headaches. Also, trouble swallowing and sometimes numbness in arms and fingers. I have a few other symptoms (there's tons) but those are the main ones.

Im 3 months post op as of today and I 89% feel better. The headaches have stopped, but I still get a pressure when I do anything such as bend over, cough, sneeze, exist in any capacity really lol. I still have issues swallowing. I still have issues with numbness. They had to sever all muscles in the back of my neck to do the surgery and honestly that's what hurts the most still. I just have to stretch my muscles out a bit more to be "normal".