Intracranial hypotension/caffeine

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This really looks like what I have, and the caffeine the past two days seems to be helping.

1: Curr Opin Neurol. 1996 Jun;9(3):214-8.

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Headache caused by raised intracranial pressure and intracranial hypotension.

Ramadan NM.

Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital and Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

Extremes of intracranial pressure commonly cause headache. Benign intracranial hypertension is a rare syndrome of increased intracranial pressure manifesting as headache, intracranial noises, transient visual obscuration, and palsy of the sixth cranial nerve. Endocrine disorders such as obesity and hypoparathyroidism, hypervitaminosis A, tetracycline use and thyroid replacement are probable causes of benign intracranial hypertension. In the majority of cases, however, it is idiopathic. Benign intracranial hypertension is though to be caused by cerebral edema, high cerebrospinal fluid outflow resistance and high cerebral venous pressure, or a combination of the three. The management of benign intracranial hypertension includes, symptomatic headache relief, removal of offending risk factor(s), and medical or surgical reduction of intracranial pressure. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is more rare than benign intracranial hypertension. Postural headache (worse in the upright position) is the hallmark of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Typically, the cerebrospinal fluid pressure is less than 60 mm H2O. Diminished cerebrospinal fluid production, hyperabsorption, and leak are postulated mechanisms of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Empirical treatment includes bed rest, administration of caffeine, corticosteroids or mineralocorticoids, epidural blood patch, and epidural saline infusion.

PMID: 8839614 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Bite the bullet and admit that it's the Scotch in your coffee that's restorative, after all the Gaelic word for whisky translates as "Water of Life" :-)

Have a look at this, not really on target but I'm too tired to search any further http://neurologyreviews.com/jan00/nr_jan00_alcoholcaffeine.html

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[infections] Intracranial hypotension/caffeine

This really looks like what I have, and the caffeine the past two days seems to be helping.

1: Curr Opin Neurol. 1996 Jun;9(3):214-8. Links

Headache caused by raised intracranial pressure and intracranial hypotension.

Ramadan NM.

Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital and Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

Extremes of intracranial pressure commonly cause headache. Benign intracranial hypertension is a rare syndrome of increased intracranial pressure manifesting as headache, intracranial noises, transient visual obscuration, and palsy of the sixth cranial nerve. Endocrine disorders such as obesity and hypoparathyroidism, hypervitaminosis A, tetracycline use and thyroid replacement are probable causes of benign intracranial hypertension. In the majority of cases, however, it is idiopathic. Benign intracranial hypertension is though to be caused by cerebral edema, high cerebrospinal fluid outflow resistance and high cerebral venous pressure, or a combination of the three. The management of benign intracranial hypertension includes, symptomatic headache relief, removal of offending risk factor(s), and medical or surgical reduction of intracranial pressure. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is more rare than benign intracranial hypertension. Postural headache (worse in the upright position) is the hallmark of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Typically, the cerebrospinal fluid pressure is less than 60 mm H2O. Diminished cerebrospinal fluid production, hyperabsorption, and leak are postulated mechanisms of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Empirical treatment includes bed rest, administration of caffeine, corticosteroids or mineralocorticoids, epidural blood patch, and epidural saline infusion.

PMID: 8839614 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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