Very unfortunate news

[PANAMHIEST]

Update:

I went to the neurologist today and cant really tell if i received good or bad news. From what he could tell me from the cat scans the cyst is not large enough to be considered immediately life threatening. In order for him to justify doing a life threatening surgery the cyst would have to be immediately life threatening. So he is going to order some MRI's to see if the cyst is stabilized since a had a concussion apparently that the E.R did not catch. If it is stabilized, he will put me on some medications for the head pains. I will just have to live with this until it one day does become life threatening, so in the mean time, i just gotta deal with progressively worse memory loss, vision problems, seizures, and the head pains.

Is that good news or bad news?

[taylovesthebeatles]

Update:

I went to the neurologist today and cant really tell if i received good or bad news. From what he could tell me from the cat scans the cyst is not large enough to be considered immediately life threatening. In order for him to justify doing a life threatening surgery the cyst would have to be immediately life threatening. So he is going to order some MRI's to see if the cyst is stabilized since a had a concussion apparently that the E.R did not catch. If it is stabilized, he will put me on some medications for the head pains. I will just have to live with this until it one day does become life threatening, so in the mean time, i just gotta deal with progressively worse memory loss, vision problems, seizures, and the head pains.

Is that good news or bad news?

Uhhhm. I'm really not sure :/ What was the name of the physician you saw? I may not be too much help because the only super duper one I know of is a pediatric one out of Salt Lake City. But you could potentially call him up maybe and see if he would know enough to give you a second opinion? I don't really know what to say. He might at least know whether your neurosurgeon was a good doc or not and if you should get a second opinion from someone else more local. His name is Dr. Marion L. Walker and he works out of Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[Pokerkitty6]

A second opinion couldn't hurt. I'm going thru this process myself right now and the more opinions I get, the better solution to my problem. Your's is in your head, that's scary being so close to the brain. If you have insurance a 2nd opinion is just another co-payment. Go for it, you deserve it and you owe it to yourself. You're important to alot of people and I wish you all the answers you're looking for. Stay healthy!

[woohoosue]

sigh guy.....no ..i want a doctor that is sure of his findings...looks like another wait and see...the second opinion sounds right on.....I don't really get the "its not life threatening ENOUGH?" thing.....if my LIFE is threatened it is threatened ...don't sit there and gamble on to what degree.....fix me!
hope that you are not in too much pain their buddy....wish things were better for ya...hope u get some str8t answers soon....HANG in there!

[PANAMHIEST]

i am looking at some possible docs for a 2nd opinion. I live way out in the boonies so will likely have to travel a long distance to go and see one worth his salts. my plan is to present my case to a few and see if they also agree with my first neurologist in this matter, as running all over the place is gonna get very costly. The first guy i went to was 150 miles there and back, so it seemed worthless based on what his opinion was, but hey what can ya do? The guy dont wanna risk my life, to hopefully make it better, if my life isnt in immediate danger, which is understandable to a degree.

But that is like saying you can stand in the road and be just fine until a semi truck is bearing down on you, or you wont die as long as your at the edge of a 50 story rooftop, but if you fall then your in trouble kinda thing, hard to make sense of the logic in that.

[Ringo]

Option 3

Do nothing and become a genius like John Travolta did in that movie
Phenomenon. That would be way cool.

[buzzmania]

i live in the woods and we get 123 opinions,lol.

[scion]

we send you strength and healing as im sure everyone at this forum does