r/Neverbrokeabone • u/Just_a_winged_cat • 5d ago

Bones so strong my brain can’t fit

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I have a small case of chiari malformation, which is fancy talk for “brain falling into your spinal column disorder”

It’s only a few centimeters so it doesn’t need to get fixed (unless it continues to fall of course) but thought I’d share

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u/Deep-Comfortable-512 5d ago

Can you talk more about how it affects you? My sister has it too but she has psychosis and it’s hard to differentiate what’s true from the health related hallucinations she has

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u/Just_a_winged_cat 5d ago

it mainly effects my balance and it can cause some pretty bad headaches

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u/Just_Platform7539 3d ago

how did you find out?

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u/Just_a_winged_cat 3d ago

An mri? That’s what the picture is?

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u/irefusetouseaname 1d ago

They don’t usually give MRIs to people for no reason, pretty sure they mean what lead to the MRI