Hello, I have just recently been diagnosed with MVP
and have most of the symptoms I have been reading on
this website... palpitations, dizziness, shortness of
breath, knee pain, numbness in fingers and heals, neck
and shoulder blade pain and the chest pain which is
the worst because it really makes you feel as if you
are going to have a heart attack any time now....

My story begins during my preganancy 2 years ago next
month... I had a great pregnancy although they needed
to put me on thyroid medicine to produce enough for
the baby and I. Also, during the last few months of
pregnancy I was diagnosed with the Gestational
Diabetes which I changed my diet for to keep under
control... Other than that the pregnancy was great.

During the labor I chose to have the epidural, during
this procedure they punctured my dural wall with too
large of a needle and I was leaking spinal fluid
through the pushing process, also on oxygen and
the babies heart rate went down too low.... They got
it back up and he was born healthy and happy! He is my
greatest JOY.

Afterwards though (because of the spinal fluid loss) I
had what they call a "spinal headache" - If anyone has
had issues with this before I can tell you there is no
pain you will ever feel like the one you
feel when your brain is starving for spinal fluid...
anyway to make a long story shorter... I had to have 2
blood patches (they take blood from your arm and
inject it into your spinal column to fill "the void"
where the fluid is missing... The blood stays in
there until your brain makes enough spinal fluid to
replace it... I feel I have many problems still from
all of this and I have been in and out of docs offices
since my son's birth to "alleviate" some of
my issues... Recently however they did an "echo" and
noticed on top of my other health issues I have MVP..
I have never had issues with my heart before this, but
all my "chest pain" issues do sound like
this is part of my problems. I noticed how many of you
were diagnosed after pregnancy, during pregnancy
etc... and wonder if the strain of a baby has
something to do with the diagnosis? I also
agree with the cut back of coffee/alchohol/cigarettes
etc.... I noticed no one really mentions all "their
bad habits" and can tell you that I drink on my bad
days (couple glasses of wine) and will smoke
occasionally to relieve stress (which I noticed really
affects my symptoms- (the stress)) - I do not work out
regularly because running after my two year old keeps
me very active. Anyway, If anyone has any information
to pass to me in regards to MVP or if
they have similiar symptoms from a epidural etc... I
am at wits end with all of it... the doctors, the
appointements, the procedures and the pains...
Thank you for listening!


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