Hi Kim,
Thanks for the link. I read the article, which is a little too hard to understand.
How does the leak occur? I have at least three MRIs of brain done in the last 3 years or so, and none of them revealed anything that is described in the article -- just non-specific tiny white spots (punctate foci) within the bilateral cerebral white matter.
The symptoms of possible optic migraines I have had so far are lightheadesness, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting while standing although it didn't come so suddenly. One time I fainted, but no headache. Another time, it all started with feeling stiffness, heaviness and weakness in both shoulders and arms and around the neck. I managed to walk around and finally settled at the toilet because I thought I was going to vomit. I started having some vision distortion and severe ringing in ears. It might be considered a blurred vision, but I just couldn't see anything except that everything was white. I was standing by the toilet as I had vomited a little that particular night, and all the sudden all I saw was whitish brightness. At one point I remember thinking I was seeing a frame of a wooden chair or something like that as I \"saw\" a brown outline of something. Our toilet is white. Then severe ringing in ears came with very high pitch noise. I could tell I was breathing very shallow and fast and my heart was beating fast, and I remember thinking to myself I needed to calm down and breathe slowly. Eventually, everything was back to normal. No headache came on. I have to ask my husband how long I was like that, but my guess is it wasn't that long (maybe less than 20 minutes.)
When I have a headache, lying down doesn't help at all, and it's most likely a tension type headache (most likely from neck muscle spasm). Zanaflex seems to be helping.
So, I am still confused.
Mitsuyo
