As a final resort, I had the spinal tap. I suffer from migraines and I just knew it was going to deprive me of comfort and peace for a few days (migraines can be debilitating). Guess what? It did and I was angry with my neurologist because the results from it were not helpful. However, I wanted to be sure to do all that I had to do in order to get to a diagnosis.
I will never let a doctor talk me into that again.
Bev
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Subject: Re: [TMIC] spinal tap
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:08:01 -0600
>And that is why I'll never agree to a spinal tap. That plus I was told there
>is only 50-50 chance that it will give any answers to anything/.
>Margie - Naperville
>
>
>On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 8:13:24 -0800, pjv1234 wrote
> > Carol
> > I've never been given an answer to my three days of pounding
> > headaches during rehab. I had a lumbar puncture on a Monday, never
> > moved and had no leakage. My headaches didn't start until Wednesday
> > and lasted through Friday evening. The noise in my head was so loud
> > I couldn't hear what people were saying.
> >
> > I've always wondered if this was from the LP. Everyone just shrugged
> > it off. I never get headaches - never - so I was an experience I'll
> > never forgrt.
> >
> > Patti - Michigan
>
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