Skylar’s Story

Hi my name is Skylar I am 31 I have had back pain since I was in the 2nd grade when it became the end of 4th grade I began to have headaches and soon after I had headaches EVERY day and back pain  EVERY day and then I when to a chiropractor and found out I had scoliosis and towards the end of fifth grade I found out I had spinal stenosis then in the middle of 7th grade the end of 2nd semester I had migraines every day and went to a Doctor Who said it was because I had stress going on in my household ( I have a sister who has mental disorders and her behavior is really bad she is in and out of the mental hospital for threatening) then I went to a neurosurgeon, and before going to them, I had done many MRIs they found. I had chiari malformation that was 5mm which is on the cusp of where you can be diagnosed when we had gone to see him. He said I did not have it without doing any more test but we didn’t believe him. We did another MRI and stopped seeing him so he never got the results of those MRI then we went to a chiari  specialist within five minutes of seeing her they diagnosed with chiari maffirmation and tethered cord The couple things she did were test my balance, which is really bad. She heard all of my symptoms which are at least 20 or more than she tested how I walked and how I stand in how my MRI results came back I in fact was not 5mm I was 7 and 1/2 mm and now I am getting a brain surgery for the chiari which is called decompression surgery then I’m getting a surgery for the tethered cord. We don’t have any dates yet, but they’re gonna be within the next year. So in total in the last three years, I have been diagnosed with scoliosis, spinal stenosis, tethered cord, and chiari malformation. However, the. Chiari is not curable. I will get some relief hopefully.