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Md wants to treat chiari syndrome. what if i don't?
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No need to treat: A chiari malformation type 1 is not a dangerous condition. It is usually found incidentally during the workup for a headache. The only reason to have surgery is to relieve symptoms, and often the symptoms and the chiari are unrelated so the surgery doesn't help. If your symptoms are manageable, then i would avoid surgery.
Answered 11/27/2017
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