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Why Having Blurred Vision After Reducing The Dose Of Demoral For Intracranial Idiopathic Hypertension?
My 16 year old daughter was diagnoised with Intracranial Idiopathic Hypertension or Psuedotumor cerebri two years ago. She had a prescription for 50 mg of demoral x2 every 6 hrs as needed, to use when her headaches/migraines got above a pain level of 7-8. She ran out and her primary care provider changed it to 50 mg x1 every 6 hrs as needed. she took one this evening and her vision became blurry (more then normal). It has been about 5 hours and the vision is returning to normal is this a side effect? I read where people with increased intracranial pressure should not take this because it could affect the vision. Is this true?
Fri, 28 Mar 2014
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It seems from the history that your daughter is having idiopathic intra cranial hypertension and on treatment for the same.
Blurring of vision in intra cranial hypertension indicates raise of intracranial tension leading to transient loss of vision because of optic disc edema.
Hence this indicates more effective treatment of pseudotumor cerebri.
Thank you
It seems from the history that your daughter is having idiopathic intra cranial hypertension and on treatment for the same.
Blurring of vision in intra cranial hypertension indicates raise of intracranial tension leading to transient loss of vision because of optic disc edema.
Hence this indicates more effective treatment of pseudotumor cerebri.
Thank you
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