Lara, my mum has suffered for years with vertigo and headaches, she is now 83 and currently in hospital. She has had two spontaneous bleeds in the last 8 weeks and had two subsequent blood patches with another scheduled for tomorrow. Her nose leaks continuously with muck running down the back of her throat which they now believe to be CSF. She has photophobia, sun light causes her great distress. She has been more and more anxious over these last months, anything and everything stressed her out. She describes the room as tumbling rather than spinning.