Low CSF pressure can cause headaches. For example, postural headaches due to CSF leaks after lumbar puncture are especially common. Does your pain improve when you lie down?
Ask your neurosurgeon or neurologist about ways to manage these headaches. It's possible that your shunt is working too well, reducing your CSF pressure too much, resulting in your headache.
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Originally Posted by shuntboy88
I have a VP Shunt and have had a headache ever since. worse than before I had the shunt. Anyone else with a shunt having this or is this long term? I have had my shunt for a couple months. just had a shuntogram and shunt functioning fine, so they tell me.  |