Woman’s Five-Year Runny Nose Was Her Own Brain Fluid

[Free Vulcan]

The 52-year-old Nebraska woman spent five years dealing with what she thought were chronic allergies.

The truth, however, was a little more disturbing.

Kendra Jackson was leaking half a pint of cerebrospinal fluid–the liquid in which your brain is floating right now–every day for five years. Doctors told her that it was merely a chronic allergy problem, despite warning signs like the constant salty taste in the back of her throat. Despite near-suicidal desperation, Jackson pushed through the constant headaches and endlessly runny nose.

Jackson suffered difficulties working, eating, playing with her grandchildren, and even lost her sense of smell.

Read more at: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/09/womans-five-year-runny-nose-brain-fluid/

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Just damn.

[mountaineer]

Horrible. It's so annoying when doctors don't even want to try to find an answer. (I know the feeling).

[truth_seeker]

The is another disorder, whereby the brain retains too much cerebral/spinal fluid, eg. a plumbing problem as well.

Called Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, or NPH, is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, as mere "aging," dementia etc. But it is treatable.

Symptoms are called Wobbly, Wet and Weird. Wobbly as in gait disturbance, wet as in mildly to severely incontinent, and weird as in memory loss.