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February 19th, 2008
There is no category for this, due to the fact that it is exceedingly rare, and if there was a category for it, there would be like, one post.
I have this extremely rare disease called Posterior Fossa Syndrome, which I get from the removal of a brain tumor from the back of my brain, in one of the ventricles. As a result, it erased everything in my cerebellum, and my executive functions were also put on reset. No one knows why the executive functions are affected, but that is probably because no one is wuite sure how the brain works. The weird thing is, my cerebrum, the part of my brain responsible for knowing things did not get affected. The product of this is that I know everything I used to know, I just can't apply many of them. I know that when babies are very young, they have to learn how to use both of their eyes together. When I got this disease, one of my primary symptoms was that my eyes crossed. A doctor sort of cannot answer this question, only someone else that had the same disease can. Did you have the same thing happen to you? The tumor was on my cerebellum and the seventh nerve, which controls the lateral eye movement for the left eye. I am thinking that it may be the location of the tumor on the nerve that caused this to happen. It is not vital that I learn the answer to this as soon as possible, but it is something I would like to know.
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MandMs
replied February 22nd, 2008
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When was the surgery performed?
Do you have speech disturbances?
Are you experiencing difficulty swallowing or feeling pain while swallowing?
Do you have drooping eyelids or pupil enlargement and lack of light reaction along with crossed eyes?
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Heir-of-God
replied March 5th, 2008
This is the same guy, I actually forgot the password to sparky456, so i gotta answer from here. The surgery was last march, I lost the ability to talk, and for a while in the beginning, I could not talk at all. I did not know how to use my vocal chords so I could not respond to people even though I could understand what they were saying. I do not have any problems with swallowing actually, that is probably the only thing that I did not get a problem with Very Happy I may have a drooping eyelid on my right eye, which is the one that is crossed, but if I do then it is very slight because I did not ever noticed it until you mentioned it. Pupil enlargement I do not have nor do I have a lack of reaction to light. I have no problem answering these questions, but I fail to see their relevance to my initial question.
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Heir-of-God
replied March 12th, 2008
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There is no category for this, due to the fact that it is exceedingly rare, and if there was a category for it, there would be like, one post.
I have this extremely rare disease called Posterior Fossa Syndrome, which I get from the removal of a brain tumor from the back of my brain, in one of the ventricles. As a result, it erased everything in my cerebellum, and my executive functions were also put on reset. No one knows why the executive functions are affected, but that is probably because no one is wuite sure how the brain works. The weird thing is, my cerebrum, the part of my brain responsible for knowing things did not get affected. The product of this is that I know everything I used to know, I just can't apply many of them. I know that when babies are very young, they have to learn how to use both of their eyes together. When I got this disease, one of my primary symptoms was that my eyes crossed. A doctor sort of cannot answer this question, only someone else that had the same disease can. Did you have the same thing happen to you? The tumor was on my cerebellum and the seventh nerve, which controls the lateral eye movement for the left eye. I am thinking that it may be the location of the tumor on the nerve that caused this to happen. It is not vital that I learn the answer to this as soon as possible, but it is something I would like to know.
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MandMs
replied March 17th, 2008
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The exact etiology of this syndrome is unknown, and some studies have shown that the signs and symptoms develop from an average range of 24 to 107 hours after surgery and may take weeks to months to resolve.
This syndrome involves a variety of signs and symptoms including mutism or speech disturbances, dysphagia, decreased motor movement, emotional lability and cranial nerve palsies.
Crossed eyes or strabismus can be an indication that a cranial nerve has a lesion (lesion in either of cranial nerve 3,4 and 6 will result in the lack of innervation to eye muscles and in a change of eye position.)
Third Cranial Nerve Palsy usually presents with sudden onset of double vision, the eyelid is usually droopy and there may be significant pain. The pupil can be involved or spared like in your case.
Have you noticed some improvements of your symptoms, besides speech improvement, since the onset of this syndrome?
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