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optic nerves

Hi there just wondering if you could help me , february this year I was diagnosed as having swollen optic nerves along with headaches eye distubances(I lost full vision twice for a couple of seconds, very scarey).
I was then given an MRI scan and they found that part of one of my arteries in the back of my head towards the right, was much narrower than it should be. They presumed that it was a blood clot which had dispersed because I had forgotten that about a year before this I bumped my head on a steel table as I was coming up from emptying a bin it didnt bleed although I felt sick and very dizzy for quite a while afterwards. It was in the same place that the vein is narrower,I was feeling unwell for months and months before the Gp realised that it wasn't just general depression. I have been told to take frusomide and acetozimide twice a day they now have to reduce the medication . But I am wondering if I should have another brain scan just to make sure there isnt anytthing else or that the vein is not worse. They are saying that the bump to my head didn,t have anything to do with this vein but I am not happy.I really hope that you can help me with this thankyou.
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I take acetazolomide as well...supposed to take Lasix..but that drug scares me
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When my eye doctor found swollen optic nerves I had the scans then a Spinal Tap to measure opening pressure.  I have pseudotumor cerebri.  What you are describing sounds exactly that....google. it.
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