I had a LP shunt revision placed in July this year aftrer my previous shunt coiled and blocked.
Since I have had this shunt placed I have had a lot of problems suchas the sciatica straight after, Low Pressure Headaches that went when the high pressure headaches came 3 weeks after surgery but when the surgeons admitted me to hospital to get tests and an LP done it was opening of a 17 4 days after the high pressure headaches came back so they said it was "normal" pressure. Since then I have had the high pressure headaches, pain in meck and shoulders, nausea, vision problems etc but apparently it is normal to feel like this 8weeks after surgery.
The main problem is the pain in my shunt area from the back of the shunt right the way through to my tummy area, I can not lie on the left side (where the shunt is) without it really hurting. It also feels like a really sharp stabbing pain right the way along the tubing through out the day it takes my breath away when the pain comes as it really hurts.
I have had problems with the surgeon from day 1 so after he shouted at me a few hours after surgey for asking for pain releif he has discharged me after I made a formal complaint against him, My neuro was going to talk to him as my neuro is concerned about my vision (I am partially sighted through IH and my vision is deteriating) so I dont know who I have as a surgeon at the moment whether or not it is the same one I had in the past or a different one in the hospital or a total different surgeon in another hospital so I cant really phone the surgeon up to ask him/her.
Does anyone know of this pain in my shunt area is normal?
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