Hi
I had visual disturbances after a while of inactivity & weight gain one summer which I thought was ocular migraine as I had had it in pregnacys before but it would go by the end of the day but this one didn't go so they found optic nerve swelling at the the back of my eyes mostly left eye and did a load of tests including a lumbar puncture which straight away Got rid of the visual disturbances and the water retention and some of the excess water weight
I was then diagnosed with iih
They trialed me on acetazolomide
But that made my whole body tighten up and spasm and mainly kidneys
So I stopped that
Lost some weight
Tried spironalactone
As I also had a large cyst on ovary causing excess testosterone
But that caused me to feel like my head was too heavy for my body and like I couldn't stand
In the end I just lost the weight which seemed to help
But then when the cold weather started up around Christmas u started to get shakes in my legs and arms around night them really bad headaches and chest pain
I went into hospital again
I felt too sick to eat or drink much
So after this lumbar puncture
It was actually low
Not high like the first one I had with the eye symtpms
I thought I might have a spinal leak from the lumber puncture testing
But in the end I was diagoosed with dysautonomia or pots
But mystery optic nerves was not swollen anymore
but my pulse would for fast qhick at times of standing up
This has gone down a bit now
But now I get tremor upon waking almost every night
not sleep to Wake mode it happens
I wake tired still with a sore throat headache and neck ache
I only get chest pain on exertion now
I'm awaiting a 5 day heart test
At the moment I have been inactive due to lockdown
And waking up with heavy head
Dizzy
Eyes flitting
And head heavy