A 34-year-old member asked:

Are headaches compulsory symptoms for csf leak and meningitis?

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Dr. Steven Giannottaanswered

Neurosurgery 50 years experience

Yes: They certainly are common symptoms, but meningitis causes high fever and mental status changes. You haven't said why you might have a CSF leak.

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Dr. James Goodrichanswered

Neurosurgery 40 years experience

CSF leak: Headaches are extremely common symptoms in both a CSF leak and meningits.

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A 43-year-old female asked:

Had meningitis, docs guess from bad sinuses. Had few cat scans after recovery, would that show if it was actually a csf leak that caused meningitis?

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A 44-year-old member asked:

Sinuses caused meningitis. Recovered. Get little drips when i tilt head. Often still feel aches/fatigue. Could be csf leak making me still feel sick?

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A 32-year-old female asked:

Had skull base surgery to repair csf leak last year as had meningitis 3 times.part of repair came away.should I have a c section?to avoid straining.

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A 20-year-old male asked:

Pt of 14 yrs unconscious( 2 days )having temp of 104 F is on ceftriaxone for suspected case of meningitis but no improvement CSF - Inc. lymphcyts TX ?

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A 21-year-old female asked:

Raised ict is a contraindication to lp. Meningitis has raised ict. Then how do we do an LP in meningitis to collect csf?

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