Jeanette Hughes
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IHope for a Cure
I have suffered from headaches since I was 7 years old. They diagnosed me with migraines that year and started me on what would be a life-long journey of taking every known headache medicine known to man. In 2004 I was working in my dream job as a nurse & began having more severe and frequent headaches, that were unable to be relieved by any kind of medicine. After a spinal tap was performed it was discovered that I had a rare disease called Idiopathic intracranial Hypertension, it is a disease where your body doesn’t absorb your spinal fluid correctly thus causing increased pressure to the brain. Intracranial Hypertension (IH) is characterized by increased pressure inside the skull. Intracranial means inside the skull and hypertension means high fluid pressure. Intracranial hypertension means that the pressure of the fluid that surrounds the brain (cerebrospinal fluid or CSF) is too high. Elevated CSF pressure can cause two problems, severe headache and visual loss. If the elevated CSF pressure remains untreated, permanent visual loss or blindness may result. Pseudotumor cerebri and benign intracranial hypertension are both former names for IH, which are now considered inaccurate. These names do not adequately describe the disorder and downplay the seriousness of IH.
By Jeanette Hughes4 years ago in Motivation