Back Story

I have been having dizzy spells where I would loose my vision for most of my adult life. But after my horse accident in 2007 they got more frequent. I had my second son in 2008 and after I received the epidural thats when the pain started with the headrushes. Just with the headrushes at first. Let me explain the pain it feels like someone hammering a nail into the back of your head. Then the pain started coming any time I raised my voice again not all that frequent maybe just once a month or so. The last several months though the pain started coming once a week at first then several times a week. The last two months though it has been almost a daily occurence and I thought ok I have migraine headaches. I was diagnosed 3 months ago with IBS as well not thinking anything was related I went to my doctor 2 months ago and asked him if I was anemic because I was exhausted all the time. No matter how much I slept I always woke up tired. Then the headaches got to much for me to handle so this last month I went in to see him again feeling like this was all in my head and they were going to think I was crazy. I brought up the headaches too him and said I had found something on the internet that I thought explained everything. He was very accomodating and said sure tell me and we will look into it. I told him I thought it could be a Chiari Malformation. He said those are really rare and I think what you have is Migraine headaches but lets do an MRI to be sure there is nothing funky going on. I said ok and off to MRI I went a week later. I had the MRI at 4 on a Tuesday by 2 on Wedsnday I got a phonecall from my doctor. He said Tiffany you were right You have a Chiari Malformation type 1. So I got off the phone with him in shock I went straight to the hospital and picked up a copy of my mri and my results I have a 1.14 cm decention of the cerebellar tonsils past the foramen magnum.