Fluids Hypertension Syndromes: Migraines, Headaches, Normal ...

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 129
XI- 19) – Emotional Stress:
It caused the raise of intraocular pressure and consequent Migraines some hours after the stress or at
the next morning.
We had six Migraine patients, five men and only one woman, with this Emotional Stress etiology.
Their average age was 41.8 years.
These six patients with Emotional Stress also presented other etiologies together with this one:
- 5 patients (83%) drinking excessive water daily,
- 4 patients (67%) drinking coffee (3 patients) or tea (1 patient);
- 2 patients (33%) drinking caffeinated soft drinks, besides the coffee they drank;
- 1 patient (17%) drinking medications that raise the fluids pressures;
- 1 patient (17%) drinking beer.
These six patients with Emotional Stress migraines, complained about:
- 3 patients (50%) with ocular migraines;
- 3 patients (50%) with temporal or head-top (vertex) migraines;
- 2 patients (33%) worsen their migraines at morning;
- 1 patient (17%) with occipital migraines, diagnosed as Muscle Contraction (Tension) Migraine.
- 1 patient (17%) with wide frontal migraines;
- 1 patient (17%) with photophobia;
- 1 patient (17%) with nausea and retching and vomiting;
- 1 patient (17%) with eyes redness;
- 1 patient (17%) with miosis in both eyes.
These patients with Emotional Stress presented On the examination:
- 3 patients (50%) with minimal (0.25 diopters) Optic Nerves’ borders edema;
- 2 patients (33%) with evident (0.5 diopters) Optic Nerves’ borders edema;
- 1 of the above patients (16%) also with suspicion of glaucoma;
- 1 patient (16%) with incipient Glaucoma.
- No patient was without any of the above pathologies.
We suppose that the physical stress which causes the Uhthoff phenomenon on the Multiple Sclerosis
patients is similar to the emotional stress. Probably, the excess of Adrenaline (Epinephrine) and its toxicity
causes both of them.
“The Uhthoff phenomenon is an exacerbation of the patient's symptoms when exercising or when
exposed to temperature change. The most notable symptoms affected by the Uhthoff phenomenon are
transient visual obscurations, dyschromatopsia, and contrast sensitivity changes. The symptoms tend to
resolve with restoration of euthermic conditions. Most symptoms of the Uhthoff phenomenon resolve
from within 60 minutes to 24 hours.” (Lee AG and Costello F).
We conclude that Emotional Stress migraines affect mainly men.
We conclude that in all men with Migraines and emotional stress, there was relation with excessive
drinks of water or caffeine. The only patient without this relation was the only woman.
We conclude that the neck muscle contraction is a reaction to the occipital (Tension) Migraines.
Below we present the etiologies of the Fluids Hypertension Syndromes and respective migraines
and diseases, which we did not make statistics about them:
XI- 20) – After cranial damage (only for the Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypertension Syndrome) (Intracranial
hypertension - Benign intracranial hypertension):
On these 1,270 patients, we had only two patients, one post-meningitis with migraines, and one postcerebral
vascular stroke with Optic Nerves borders giant edema, which are denominated as Pseudotumor
cerebri or Benign intracranial hypertension.