Jugular Dysautonomia

Hi again. I’ve been diagnosed with probable spontaneous CSF leak due to raised intracranial pressure. It started 10+ years ago; before that I used to get terrible postural headaches. I have constant fluid down the back of my throat, and sometimes my eyes seep constantly. Occasionally I get clear fluid draining from nostrils. @Kooldude is right I think that this is often missed because it alleviates pressure enough, albeit temporarily, so that an MRI shows normal, as mine was with just slight flattening of eye. Dr Higgins, who I am see, wrote a paper on it -
A paradigm for chronic fatigue syndrome: caught between idiopathic intracranial hypertension and spo (tandfonline.com)

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