Hydrocephalus Support Group

Hi Guys,

Just the old dinosaur wanting to how many people while walking find they stumble due to the slowness of one of the legs keeping up with the other which sometimes forces you to fall down or stumble.

Well, as a child I was EXCEPTIONALLY clumsy. My mother would say that she had NEVER seen a child as uncoordinated and clumsy as me. I had chronic goose eggs on my forehead because my head seemed magnetically attracted to concrete. I could not walk and chew gum at the same time!

As I aged, I compensated a little better, but by my mid 30's I started dragging my right leg. I also had great difficulty gripping pens and writing checks. I began to think I was having strokes. ...which I may have had! Who knows!

I suffer from vertigo, so I stumble around quite often. I am known for being very "unstable" on my feet. I refuse to wear high heels and only wear sensible shoes.

~Mary

Hi Mary

It's funny as a child none of these happened to me except for the few revisions Hydro was not an important factor in my life. All my symtoms seem to happen starting in the 80's seizures(2)possible stroke 2002 doc thinks it may have been over-drainage still baffled. Weather was never a factor back then as it is now. I fell down but kids fall down not like now. I wish I had the answers.

I had trouble with balance and still do when i was younger all do to the brain damage from Hydro.