I have contracted a condition alternatively known as intercranial hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri. In most cases it responds to treatment, either with the quite venerable drug acetazolamide, or if that doesn't work, through various forms of surgical interventions. However, in a small number of cases, the condition, which involves the swelling and distortion of the optic nerves under pressure from excess spinal fluid, fails to respond to treatment. In these cases, there tends to be a degradation of the optic nerve tissue, eventually resulting in blindness. This would be me.
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