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Who else has seizures do to having a shunt? I had a shunt put in me when I was an infant after being diagnosed with hydrocephalus. My last three seizures I’ve had have happened at work. My last one was last Monday. Couldn’t tell you what happened do to I have recollection of what happened. The weird thing is though is that I was not left with a headache what so ever. But my shunt I have currently have fractures in it, both in the catheter part of it as well as the tubing that goes down my neck. My neurologist doesn’t want to send me to a neurosurgeon do to the fact that there’s no fluid build up. But I’m constantly having either pain in the area from the fractures in the tubing down my neck and the Sid of my head as well. Should I ask to be referred to a neurosurgeon anyway even tho my neurologist doesn’t think I need to go to one ? Last October I had a horrible headache for two days because the way my shunts current condition is. What should I do? I think I need to go to a neurosurgeon.

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