A 22-year-old male asked:
if someone got dizzy from idiopathic intracranial hypertension and headache, would you expect them to wrosen upon going form upright to supine?
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Dr. Walter Husar answered
33 years experience Neurology
Maybe: There may be a postural component to the degree of headache. Also may worsen if you strain at a bowel movement. The headache is occurring from the increased intracranial pressure and one may not sense the degree of worsened headache.
Answered on Mar 18, 2014
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