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What Causes Painful Eye Movements After Spinal Tap?

hi. I had a spinal tap last week for suspected intracranial hypertension because of optic nueritis. I am now having pain with eye movement. Could this be a low pressure headache from the tap or should I see my opthmamoligist? It does not go away when lying down. And I have not had this before. I did have high pressure diagnosis.
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Hi,

Thank you for posting your query.

I have noted your symptoms. Pain on eye movements are more likely due to optic neuritis, rather than a side effect of spinal tap.

Spinal tap may cause post-spinal headaches, which reduce on lying down.

For your pain on eye movements, you should visit your ophthalmologist. A course of steroids may be useful.

I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information.

Wishing you good health,

Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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What Causes Painful Eye Movements After Spinal Tap?

Hi, Thank you for posting your query. I have noted your symptoms. Pain on eye movements are more likely due to optic neuritis, rather than a side effect of spinal tap. Spinal tap may cause post-spinal headaches, which reduce on lying down. For your pain on eye movements, you should visit your ophthalmologist. A course of steroids may be useful. I hope my answer helps. Please get back if you have any follow up queries or if you require any additional information. Wishing you good health, Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology) Senior Consultant Neurologist Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in