My husband had a gamma knife surgery for an AVM in his occipital lobe a few months ago. His 6-month follow-up MRI showed no signs of obliteration; the neurosurgeon said that his MRI looked fine overall. Over the last few weeks, he has had multiple episodes of peripheral vision loss followed by a severe headache. His vision comes back in a couple of hours, but his headaches last for almost 8 hours. Before his gamma knife, his only symptom was a peripheral vision loss and a headache. Has anyone experienced something similar? Please share your experience, if you can. Thank you for reading.
I often get aura before a migraine. For me, the aura sometimes causes some temporary loss of peripheral vision.
About 3 montha after my first GK and 2 months after having my aneurysms clipped, I was experience aura fairly often. The actual nasty headache didn't always follow. I went in for another MRI, which was fine, but my neurosurgeon sent me to a neurologist to manage the migraines.
I didn't have any changes until about 19 months after GK. My first sign was, I met 2 four-wheelers driving down the road and had no idea until I looked in my rear-view mirror. That is when I went to the neuro-opthamalogist he said I should get a MRI. Since then, my AVM has stayed swollen off and on, I've been on steroids off and on, constant MRI's, ect.. My head had started to hurt constantly before I found out what was wrong. I hope you don't have anything too major, but don't let something go; if you think you need a MRI, than insist that you have one.
Hi there, I had radiosurgery in april this year on my avm in my parietal lobe. In the last couple weeks I have noticed a lot more frequent "minor" symptoms, (tingling, pins & needles,visual probs, loss of balance etc) but they never seem to last long, maybe 2-3 hours at most. I had these before the radiosurgery but just seems to be more frequent now. I dont have a follow up until 1 year on which I thought was a bit odd. Hope things get better for you :)