Re: HELP Please anyone, having a spinal tap tomorrow they want me to drink caffeine
01/17/08 05:53 PM
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I'm not sure if I'm too late to respond, but I had a spinal tap years ago and the next day or so I still couldn't sit upright. If I did, the spinal fluid leaked and caused a MAJOR headache and nausea. At the time I was drinking coffee, so I tried to drive to DD (I know, crazy) for a caffeine rush hoping it would help. But while I was in the car, I actually had to lay down across the front seat at a red light b/c I almost passed out from the pain. Long story short, they took me back to the ER where they said that my blood wasn't clotting and they had to go back in the same spot and inject my own blood (taken at the same time as the procedure from my arm) back into that spot. ANyhow, I don't mean to frighten you, I just want to advise you to follow doctor's orders and stay flat for as long as possible. Don't worry, if you have to go to the bathroom, you could always lean over on something while you are sitting on the bowl as a last resort. The caffeine is probably for the headache I would think but I'm not a doctor. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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