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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LOA: [QB] Jonah~ Thanks for the concern, but I'm happy to report that according to my opthamologist, who I saw on Weds, my optic nerves are indeed not swollen. I DO have increased eye pressure though, which he cannot explain, but he said that could be a side effect of one of the many medications I'm on. He also cannot account for the major visual disturbances I've been having when I change from a sitting or laying position to a standing one and thinks it could be hypotension (or low blood pressure) but I'm not giving him too much credit for that as for the first time in MONTHS my blood pressure readings have actually been normal at every doctors appointment I've been to. My Neuro and I had a long talk on Monday about all of my symptoms and he has a different take on my visual disturbances now, after talking with me. He feels that I could indeed have the Increased Intracranial Hypertension. As I pointed out to him, there have been multiple studies that show daily migraine patients who do not respond to any treatment and who do not have swollen optic nerves when tested for increased cerebral spinal fluid have a percentage who come back with pressures WAY above normal. Most of those people are morbidly obese, but not all of them. Given my current position in life and my status in treatment, plus the numerous unexplained phenomenoa that are currently coinciding with my migraine disease, we're testing me with a spinal tap on Wednesday. I'm freakng out. A) I have no desire to go through a spinal tap, and B) I REALLY don't want to be diagnosed with this condition, but it IS going to eat at me until I know if I have it or not, because it's been eating at me already for weeks, so what will be will be. Now if I could only get work to begin cooperating a little more with me. My new obsession is researching human resource law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. I don't qualify for FMLA until November, but let me tell you - I'm getting ready to start sticking it to corporate America, beginning with the ADA. I'm not getting pushed around anymore, no way, no how. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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