Pseudotumor Cerebri Support Group
Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) is a neurological disorder that is characterized by increased intracranial pressure, in the absence of a tumor or other diseases affecting the brain or its lining. Diagnosis requires brain scans and lumbar puncture. Characteristic symptoms are headache, transient visual obscurations or transient visual loss in one or both eyes usually lasting...
Ok, I admit I'm an odd duck, but I have a question that I've wondered for too long about. After shunt surgery, has anyone else noticed changes in their urine? I know - way too much of an over share, and I apologize I really do. I'm just going through new symptoms and trying to decide what's related and what's not -and while it may seem pretty obvious that's not, it seems too coincidental some of the troubles I've noticed since the head pain has came back.
Again, sorry for the over share and sorry if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense - I'm trying to work through the fog here.
Kristena
Again, sorry for the over share and sorry if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense - I'm trying to work through the fog here.
Kristena
Like peeing isn't painful or anything, and I keep a close eye but, I pee more frequently and from time to time, the urine is more concentrated.
FOR REAL, I learned in Anatomy and Physiology last semester that some of the CSF that is drained into the abdominal cavity, some of it (even if it's only a little) gets filtered out as urine!
I was like REALLY? WHOA.