Symptoms of Intracranial Hypertension
HEADACHES:
- Positional Headache – Pressure headaches that are worse when laying down, and relieved from being upright. Patients often report falling asleep and waking up in the middle of the night with a pressure headache.
- Headache that originates behind the eyes, or (often feeling much like a sinus headache)
NECK PROBLEMS:
- Neck pain/stiffness
- Interscapular (between the shoulder blades) pain/stiffness
EQUILIBRIUM/BALANCE PROBLEMS:
- Dizziness
- Vertigo
COGNITIVE PROBLEMS:
- Mild Aphasia (generally anomic or primary progressive)
- Memory problems (usually short term)
- Brain Fog
EYE/VISION PROBLEMS:
- Nystagmus
- Visual Obscuration in one or both eyes (generally associated with papilledema)
- Blurred vision
- Dimmed vision
- Double vision (diplopia from dysfunction of 6th cranial nerve)
- Poor or decreased peripheral vision
- Flickers/flashes of light (photopsia)
- Moments of occasional blindness
- Permanent blindness
EAR/HEARING PROBLEMS:
- Tinnitus/Pulsatile Tinnitus (ringing in the ears that often pulses in time with your heartbeat), change in hearing
OTHER PHYSICAL PROBLEMS:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Hormonal Problems (generally associated with Empty Sella Syndrome and it’s effect on the pituitary gland)
Synonyms:
symptoms of high intracranial pressure, IH symptoms, IIH symptoms
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