Annie555J5
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Hi, I was born deaf with severe profound hearing loss.
I was recently diagnosed with Intracranial Hypertension which is "high spinal fluid pressure" which causes blindness, headaches and tinnitis if untreated.
How it happened was there were floaters in my vision, then was taking medication for the "swelling" of the optic nerve. It went into remission until it came back some years later and tinnitis popped up so bad like a chainsaw sound or like when somone is drilling the cement. I had headaches along with that as well... my eyes were fine.
Found out that my spinal fluid pressure was high from a spinal tap and that it was causing the headaches, but the doctors would not dare to comment anything on the tinnitis because I'm deaf. That they couldn't do anything about it.
The awful tinnitis has been going on for 3 months, waking me up at 2 am, and every 2 hours.
Any input about this, is it really common for deaf people to have that kind of loud tinnitis, or is it really related to IH (intracranial hypertension) as it states in their symptoms it's called pulsatile tinnitis. Here's a link about that:
IHRF | Symptoms | Chronic IH Symptoms Introduction www .ihrfoundation.org/intracranial/hypertension/info/C18
Would appreciate your help. Thanks!
Annie
I was recently diagnosed with Intracranial Hypertension which is "high spinal fluid pressure" which causes blindness, headaches and tinnitis if untreated.
How it happened was there were floaters in my vision, then was taking medication for the "swelling" of the optic nerve. It went into remission until it came back some years later and tinnitis popped up so bad like a chainsaw sound or like when somone is drilling the cement. I had headaches along with that as well... my eyes were fine.
Found out that my spinal fluid pressure was high from a spinal tap and that it was causing the headaches, but the doctors would not dare to comment anything on the tinnitis because I'm deaf. That they couldn't do anything about it.
The awful tinnitis has been going on for 3 months, waking me up at 2 am, and every 2 hours.
Any input about this, is it really common for deaf people to have that kind of loud tinnitis, or is it really related to IH (intracranial hypertension) as it states in their symptoms it's called pulsatile tinnitis. Here's a link about that:
IHRF | Symptoms | Chronic IH Symptoms Introduction www .ihrfoundation.org/intracranial/hypertension/info/C18
Would appreciate your help. Thanks!
Annie