Just curious so please don’t laugh

I’m 57 and I got my first shunt when I was 10 days old. I’m wondering when medical science was able to start connecting other pains in our bodies to hydrocephalus.

For example, I used to have headaches 8 days a week as I would describe them to my neurologist. Finally, when I was in my early 20’s a doctor said these headaches were migraines.

I started having seizures in high school but nobody mentioned it being connected to my hydrocephalus.

It was only after I became a young adult that doctor’s seemed to see how these things might actually be connected.

Another thing I want to say is that for most of my life I never heard of the different types and causes of hydrocephalus.

Now, in this decade it seems like hydrocephalus could fill up its own dictionary.

Anybody out there feel the same way?