Pseudotumor Cerebri

Treatment: Drugs used for the treatment include acetazolamide to reduce the production of CSF and also to reduce water content in the body. Statistics: About 1-2 people per 100,000 population have benign intracranial hypertension in the US.

Symptoms are moderate to severe headaches that may originate behind your eyes and worsen with eye movement, Ringing in the ears that pulses in time with your heartbeat (pulsatile tinnitus), Nausea, vomiting or dizziness, Blurred or dimmed vision, Brief episodes of blindness, lasting only a few seconds and affecting one or both eyes (visual obscurations), Difficulty seeing to the side, Double vision (diplopia), Seeing light flashes (photopsia).