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godzillabacter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Am a doctor, this wasn’t actually a migraine and is not how migraines happen. Shunts are placed for elevated intracranial pressure, which can occur for a number of reasons, and do cause headaches. But it’s a very uncommon cause of headaches and a shunt will not fix your actual migraines or tension headaches.

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over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thank you for your actual medical experience 👍

Now go talk to David M. and ask him, last I know he’s still alive.

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ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- godzillabacter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No idea unfortunately, but definitely not to release pressure. You don’t get air in your brain, it’s all fluid. Outside of the hospital, all the drains drain to somewhere internal, usually the abdominal cavity
  
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  - MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There’s brain fluid in my tum tum?
    
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- csh83669@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have something that looks like that. Mine is a bone mounted hearing aid. Usually there’s a little device plugged into it.
  
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