Story about Intracranial Hypertension .

My journey

Dec 25, 2015

By: Patty


_I start having haedache since I was 15 years old but I never pay any attention to it untill I was 25 I was living un kentucky And I when to México for vacations I gain 25 pounds so when I come back to kentucky my headache were worse And I start losing my visión so I went to the eye doctor he toll me that I have papilidema so he was for sure that it was a tumor cause all the presure so he send me to a neuro And they made me an MRI, CAT scan and a LP at the time they did not find any tumor so they diagnos me with IIH  on 2011 by 2012 i loss 70% of my visión the headache were horrible i was despret cause I could't walk or eat anything so I disite to los weith and come back to México for a second opinión but un the mind time cause I más más losing to much weith I start feeling better so I loss 30 pounds And I went on remition for 2 years And july of 2014 I dicide to go back to work And I love from Veracruz to Monterrey a big change just 6 month later I start feeling everything again but this time they find a tumor And the hypophisis so I have surgery on oct. To remove the tumor but I still having all the same symtoms And I feel worse And they don't want to put a shunt And the topomax is not working this time so I do not know what to do :(_

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