Hi, I am 55, suffered so much in the past. The last 10 years have been good, the last 4 the best. I weight lift, run, bike ride and work FT, attend University. I try hard to not consume preservatives, no junk food, no sugars. I consume real natural foods, no acidic foods or carbonated drinks. I manage my proteins well, these are very important. No pain meds, Motrin once in a while.
Hi and welcome to the Chiari forum.
A Syrinx or the condition known as SYRINGOMYELIA is a elated condition to Chiari but you can have them and not have Chiari.....
To have a syrinx without Chiari typically indicates you had some form of injury or trauma to that area of the body.....
A syrinx is something to be concerned about.....in fact for those with Chiari, surgery is done if there is a CSF obstruction and no syrinx, as surgery is done to help prevent the formation of one.....if one is present , surgery is done on hopes that the syrinx will shrink or resolve on it's own......
Do you have copies of your MRI's and the reports?
I'm not a doctor, and not an expert on syringes. However, as a person with Chiari and small syrinx setting up at the moment, I know that for Chiari patients, a syrinx is generally compelling enough to get neurosurgeons that specialize in chiari malformations to do surgery to decompress the chiari and hopefully allow the syrinx to diminish, if not totally go away.
Do you have a chiari malformation?