My Experience With Benign Intercranial Hypertension (My Experience of Benign Intercranial Hypertension/Pseudotumor Cerebri)

Member Name: babychamfizz

Product:	My Experience of Benign Intercranial Hypertension/Pseudotumor Cerebri
Date:	04/07/05 (601 review reads)
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Advantages: finally a correct diagnosis was given

Disadvantages: it took far to long to be diagnosed

In 1995, I started getting really severe headaches on a daily basis, but they were more severe at night as I lay in bed, so severe in fact that I really thought my brain was going to burst,I began taking ordinary painkillers bought from the chemists, these ranged from paracetamol, ibuprofen, and stuff like 'Migraleve'etc.

My doctor sent me to my local A & E department to be checked over, they were at first treating me for 'whiplash' and put me in a surgical collar,and sent me home, but it didn't work, so I was sent back to A & E, this time was admitted for observation and tests, these tests included x-rays, and I was given a range of 'suspected' diagnosises like 'water on the brain' meningitis, and even a suspected brain tumour, after a week I was discharged from hospital yet again with no accurate outcome, by this time I was in severe pain, was vomitting and my sight just went, completely, which was absolutely terrifying,finally I was admitted to hospital again and had more intensive tests like CT & MRI scans and worse of all, lumber punctures, which were agonising, I was in hospital a total of 13 weeks, and benign Intercranial Hypertension was at last diagnosed. am on regular medication now and am doing fine.

Summary: it took time, but at last I was given a proper diagnosis