Brain Blood Flow is affected by balance organs

[jerseygirl]

Hi,

Here is an article that explains how brain blood flow is affected by balance organs - most of us have them removed/altered at least on one side:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/164924.php

I think I can understand now how some people might have memory and other cognitive problems even though surgery was nowhere near in neurosurgical terms. I also understand how Gingko Biloba makes me think straight again - it improves cerebral blood flow!

               Eve

[opp2]

It certainly makes sense to me. And  helps a great deal. I suffer most of my symptoms (outside of persistent numbness and tingling in the cheek and tongue) when I move from sitting to standing. It doesn't matter if it is rising rapidly or not (which used to cause issues).

Just musing here, but I have suffered problems with what I thoughts was postural hypotension since I was a kid/teen) You know, stand up and get dizzy. Well my AN is 2.9cm and if it is growing 1-2 mm per year (average growth rate according the AN site posted on someone's sig line) then I wonder if I've had this little devil since I was 14-15 years old.

I'm starting to think if my AN as my other conscience. The one that is always there, sometimes talks to me, sometimes just kicks my a** for no reason.

 

[stoneaxe]

Ahhh....so that explains it...I thought....what was it we are talking about again?.....

[CHD63]

Hmmmmm, very interesting.  Does this explain why the disorientation/balance issue is worse immediately upon standing up?  As a young person, I always had to be very careful not to stand up rapidly when awakening in the morning or I risked blacking out ..... presumably postural hypotension.  Now that I am a controlled hypertensive, I do not have that problem.  However, since my AN surgery I have to be very careful when standing from a sitting position to wait until I am oriented before beginning to walk.

Clarice