Patient Talk: Navigating Concurrent Conditions While Deferring Treatment, by Jodi Ettenberg

This talk about navigating comorbidities while deferring spinal CSF leak treatment was given by Jodi Ettenberg at the 2nd annual Spinal CSF Leak: Bridging the Gap Conference on November 2-3, 2024, in Aurora, Colorado. This conference is a partnership between the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation and Dr. Andrew Callen and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Please see our conference landing page for more about this event: https://spinalcsfleak.org/conferences... 0:00 - Early Health Background 0:51 - Lumbar Puncture and First Leak 2:11 - Epidural Blood Patches and Anaphylaxis 2:41 - Leak Recurrence & Return of Symptoms 3:12 - Weighing the Risks of Treatment 4:06 - My Onion of Catch-22s 7:52 - How to Live With Chronic Illness 9:32 - The Power of Curiosity 10:41 - Tracking Symptoms and Experimenting 11:32 - Turning Inwards