Submitted by Katrina (not verified) on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 3:42pm.
Several years ago, I was shopping when I felt a 'burst' in the back of my head...lower left skull. I assumed that I had had an aneurism and that the burst, or gush of liquid inside my head was blood. I had several tests, and no diagnoses was given at the time because tests came back negative. For the following 8-10 days, I was unable to get up out of bed because standing up was excrutiatingly painful. I got up twice per day...both times to use the bathroom. I would run to the bathroom, lie on the floor for a few minutes, get up to use the toilet, lie on the floor...then make it back to my bed. In a reclined position, my severe headache mostly subsided.
After much research and news of a relative with a severe positional headache following a spinal tap, I came to realize that what I had was a case of spontaneous spinal leak.
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Several years ago, I was
Several years ago, I was shopping when I felt a 'burst' in the back of my head...lower left skull. I assumed that I had had an aneurism and that the burst, or gush of liquid inside my head was blood. I had several tests, and no diagnoses was given at the time because tests came back negative. For the following 8-10 days, I was unable to get up out of bed because standing up was excrutiatingly painful. I got up twice per day...both times to use the bathroom. I would run to the bathroom, lie on the floor for a few minutes, get up to use the toilet, lie on the floor...then make it back to my bed. In a reclined position, my severe headache mostly subsided.
After much research and news of a relative with a severe positional headache following a spinal tap, I came to realize that what I had was a case of spontaneous spinal leak.