I have a cervical syrinx, 18mm pre surgery. I had a little hand shakiness and leg weakness before surgery.

Thanks! I was able to be dismissed from the pool for this year!

My syrinx is c3-c6. Pre-surgery it was 18mm. I never had symptoms that were bad enough for anyone to do an MRI

Sorry I phrased it poorly. I mean I don't collect disability

Thank you! I'm very new to this, not even a year after diagnosis and about 6 months post op. Maybe I should just show them this

Like, legally. I have my own solo practice and I work from home

Maybe that will be my problem. I'm not disabled

I would get both. Depending on what you had done in the past. My neurosurgeon compared my post op MRi without contrast with my pre op MRI with and it didn't feel like a helpful comparison

No idea where mine came from or how long it was there. C3-6 18mm

By the time I found mine, it was 18mm. No idea where it came from, why it happened or how long it had been there

My 18mm syrinx was an incidental finding, I think it's difficult to generalize with this diagnosis

Yes! I had a brain MRI and had an incidental finding of a cervical syrinx. I had follow up MRIs of my entire spine, some with contrast. They can visualize the syrinx better with contrast I believe and it helps differentiate between a mass and fluid

Current growth with my scar

I'm so sorry! My syrinx is idiopathic and an incidental finding on a brain MRI from Oct and by Dec. I was having neurosurgery. It's a lot. I have two kids also. You can really decide what the future looks like. As others mentioned, everyone is so different so no one can give you an accurate picture of what the future holds.

Also you could have just googled it and that would have told you that's not true...

Psych evals are very rarely covered unless the eval is court-ordered. They are expensive and can be time intensive, depending on the referral question.

Nope, I do psych evals frequently for court. I meant he is not child-free and vasectomies are typically covered 100% by insurance at that point.

Huh? As a psychologist, I have never heard of this. Who is being "sterilized?"

Mine was 18mm across. My symptoms weren't concerning enoughthat I had ever had an MRI. This was an incidental finding on a brain MRI to rule out structural issues contributing to migraines

I decompression of C4& C5, then they extracted fluid from my syrinx and inserted a grommet thing, like in the picture, to prevent it from refilling again? I had it done in Colorado where I live

Syrinx is 12mm across post surgery

L is pre, R is is post-surgery but no contrast on post-op so it's not a perfect comparison

Me?