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...
This mess is annoying? What is causing it? Thanks!!!
If you can imagine it, there is the brain, sitting , happily in the correct amount of csf, cushioning the brain.
Then comes along IIIh, which dramatically increase the amount of csf, like 4-5 times too much.
Now everything is like being under water. Every move you make, which you would normally not feel, is now amplified. Your heartbeat, which is there all the time , you just dont hear it, is now, like it had its own personal speaker!
I also have "echos" of noise.It drives me nuts and hurts after awhile. Last evening, was my sons 11 birthday.I thought I would scream with the vibrations in my head, from the kids, normal noise.
But!!! I put in ear plugs, out of sheer desperation, and it worked!
Ok, there is a down side, you cant hear a word anyone says to you! , but it is a short term cure.
I agree with Deb, forget lps,just ask us how the noise in our heads is!
Cath.