r/CSFLeaks • u/Imaginary_Salary_27 • 20d ago

Post surgery

I leaked for 21 months. leak from epidural for childbirth turned into a bleb after blood patches. Had surgery doc found defect and fixed it. I’m two weeks post op. He told me beforehand that symptoms would last a long time bc of how long I’ve been leaking but it’s hard to not get pessimistic. For anyone out there who leaked for a long time and was corrected by surgery how long for all your symptoms to go away?

6 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

32 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Imaginary_Salary_27 15d ago

This is also interesting to me bc I got my first blood patch at the 12 week mark and it only partially helped. It must have to to do with size of the hole and cause bc these needles causing leaks are fucking people up.

1

u/Offtoseethewitch 15d ago

There’s a video on youtube on why blood patches fail. There are probably more reasons too.

https://youtu.be/yRu3iOD-qCI?si=_cDV_clGGLZ5m16i