Underwent Brain Surgery in Jan 2024 for massive Arachnoid Cyst. CT scan is from this month. Psychosis is gone but I feel incredibly sluggish, depressed, and irritable. Perhaps there is a physiologic cause? It seems hydrocephalus or ventriculomegaly is still present. Thoughts Docs?>pic related
>>16793544>i let doctors fuck around in my brain now i need meds for lifeyou agreed to this
>>16793544Can u share us your symptoms that prompted u to get a checkup
>>16793546Would have been dead otherwise you cheeky fuck. How would YOU like it if you were /flawed-by-design/? Reaping rewards of a congenital malformation?>before surgery
>>16793554My biggest concern, the apathy and negative symptoms. Avolition, poverty of thought content, I feel absent and empty all the time. I think slower now, and I don’t have the mental energy to work on anything.
>>16793544maybe your brain needs longer to recover?
>>16793557christwhat were your symptoms?
>>16793544What is your age?Did they remove brain tissue when removing the cyst?Did your post op complications show up recently or have they been the same since surgery?Are your symptoms identical to hydrocephalus?Is the hydrocephalus in the CT getting better or worse compared to the previous CTs?Were you born with the Arachnoid Cyst or was it a recent development?Do you have problems with motor function?Your symptoms sound like they are brain related; and related to the hydrocephalus. But there are other possibilities.Unilateral lesions to one brain hemisphere (e.g. your Arachnoid Cyst) are less likely to cause the symptoms you describe (e.g. see hemispherectomies). However, the symptoms you describe can be caused by BILATERAL pressure on brain regions that exist around the ventricles (e.g. hypothalamus, thalamus, reticular formation, etc.). The hydrocephalus pressure can interfere with the neural activity similar to how pressure on a limb can cause a limb to "fall asleep."Your docs should be able to perform a differential diagnosis to exclude or prove that it is hydrocephalus or something else mimicking hydrocephalus based on the CTs and history of symptoms. There are other causes for ventriculomegaly which you might be able to exclude by yourself.
>>16793544>depressedAt times like this you should consider yourself lucky that you live in current times; had this been 30 years ago your odds would have been really bad. Even today this is not trivial.I know someone who was sent to hospital for sub arachnoidal hemorrhage, and after scanning the doctor told the guy that he should be aware that chances were he might not return home alive. It is fair to say that his outlook on life changed.And you got there in time and you made it home, alive. That is something to celebrate. So stay comfy, anon.
>The exact cause of arachnoid cysts is unknown in most casesjust do a parasite cleanse
>>16793544Is the tissue dead or just compressed?
>>16793544I thought only r*dditors had holes in their brain
>>16793544>Arachnoid CystLol I forgot about that part of the brain. You should tell people it was a cyst of spiders
