What Causes Right-sided Headache When Diagnosed With Viral Meningitis And Intracranial Hypertension?
Wed, 9 Dec 2015
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Mon, 4 Jan 2016
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Hi XXXX,
Thanks for being on healthcaremagic.com.
I am Dr.Ajay Panwar,a neurologist,here to answer your query.
I completely understand your concern and shall try to address it at my best.
The dilemma over here is that whether the headache is 'Primary headache' or 'secondary headache'?
As,you have been diagnosed with raised intracranial pressure,so it gets really tricky to solve the issue.However,the best way to diagnose is - observing the response after therapeutic(large volume) CSF drainage.If this headache is due to raised intracranial pressure,it should ease off with the removal of large volume CSF.However,if the main component is of primary headache(like migraine),then it should not improve much with therapeutic lumbar puncture.
Another point to stress over here is that - even high blood pressure can cause headache.So,It should be observed whether headache improves after BP control is achieved well.This can be just another contributing factor.
For now,
I would suggest you to please upload the CSF reports and other medical documents you have, as scanned .jpg images.I would appreciate if you can upload the brain scan reports.
Please follow up with details.
Regards
Dr.Ajay Panwar,
MD,DM(Neurology)
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