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

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 78
- Curing transient reduction of visual acuity caused by caffeine and excessive water: We had a
white woman, broker, 50 year-old, 1.63 meters (5 feet and 4 inches) tall, weighing 65 Kilograms (143
pounds), complaining of intense migraines for years, many times examined and unsuccessfully medicated.
She has high Hyperopia with +5.25 diopters on right and +5.00 diopters on left eyes, and even
with her best eyeglasses correction she presented visual acuity of 0.8 and 0.9 at right and left eyes. Her
intraocular pressures were 13 and 13 mmHg in both eyes. Her Optic disks show borders edema of
about 1 diopter in both eyes. She was a drinker of coffee 150 milliliter (5 fluid ounces) and some 4
liters (one gallon) of water daily. We told her to stop the caffeine and reduce the water drinks. After
one month without caffeine and less water drank, she returned feeling better, without any migraine,
and her visual acuity with the same eyeglasses was 0.95 and 1.0 at right and left eyes. This patient
presented the typical recovery of visual acuity after reduction of her Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypertension
Syndrome.
- Curing transient reduction of visual acuity caused by caffeine and excessive water: We had a
young and healthy white patient, economist, 23-year-old, 1.83 meters (6 feet) tall, weighting 79 Kilograms
(174 pounds), myopic, who presented transient reduction of his visual acuity lasting for minutes
and relapsing after few days. His exams were almost physiologic, intraocular pressures of 14 and 14
mmHg in both eyes, but his Optic Nerves disks show 0/0/0/0.5 and 0/0/0/0.75 right and left eyes (cup
diameter/ cup depth/ lamina cribosa’s pores visibility/ borders edema), which characterizes the
Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypertension Syndrome. He was a daily drinker of coffee 150 milliliter (5 fluid
ounces), guaraná and other caffeinated soft drinks 300 milliliter (10 fluid ounces), and water 2,700
milliliter (6 pints). We oriented him to stop all those drinks and reduce the water to the thirst needs,
and he came after 3 months “all better” with his words. He was still presenting the Optic Nerves borders
edema but not so evident, because this signal usually take years to disappear.
VI- 34 – Neuralgias, Back pains, Fibromyalgia, Joints pains, and Rheumatic aches (pain): We had
patients with aches at many places for years, with multiple diagnosis and treatments, but no cure.
When submitted to our treatment, described below, they have cured in around one month and without
medications. Other doctors measured its occurrence: “Fibromyalgia syndrome was present in 36.4%
of patients and prevailed significantly in tension-type headache and in patients with higher headache
frequency. Headache frequency, pericranial muscle tenderness, anxiety and sleep inadequacy were especially
associated with Fibromyalgia syndrome comorbidity.” (Tommaso M, and others).
A question to you: which of these sufferings is not caused by the caffeine? Don't you know? No one!
VI- 35 – Migrainous facies: It is a dark color beneath or around both eyes, usually simultaneously on
the four eyelids and a little beyond them. The migrainous facies pigmentation occurs simultaneously
with small atrophy of the eyelids and the orbital fat, resulting in small bilateral enophthalmos.
We had patients with the migrainous facies caused by years of chronic Fluids Hypertension Syndromes,
so intraocular with glaucoma, so Cerebrospinal fluid ones, and respective migraines. It can be
caused by other diseases or by some eye drops that lower the intraocular pressure, mainly (but not exclusively)
the prostaglandin analogues. We do not know its pathophysiology. We did not make statistics
about this. Its excess seems to be the Haggard appearance.
Haggard appearance: Although there are authors connecting this appearance with the caffeine excess.
Along our 40 years of ophthalmology, the few patients we saw with the Haggard appearance where suffering
with the Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV), or with advanced Tuberculosis or Cancer.
VI – 36 - Other Signs and Symptoms: There are many other signs and symptoms caused by the Fluids
Hypertension Syndromes, listed at the Summary, which we did not make statistics.
We conclude that most etiologies, aches, migraines and interchangeable signs and symptoms
(Migraine variants) are common to the three Fluids Hypertension Syndromes, with small statistical
differences between them. Few are the etiologies, migraines, signs or symptoms exclusive of
only one Fluid Hypertension Syndrome.