A teenage girl presented to the hospital emergency department with a three-week history of intermittent frontal headache, which was worse in the morning and associated with nausea, vomiting, lethargy, ...

Following the procedure, you may be asked to remain lying down for a few hours or drink fluids such as caffeine to avoid a post-lumbar puncture headache. Most spinal fluid results are available 2 ...

Afterwards the person who had the sample taken is often asked to have a short rest. It is common for people to experience headaches or back pain after a lumbar puncture but these side effects usually ...

Furthermore, a retrospective cohort study indicated a shift in diagnostic practices, with an increase in the use of CT cerebral angiography over lumbar puncture for headache patients in emergency ...

Sometimes the headache is severe or persists for a few days to a week after the lumbar puncture—this may mean that the needle has left a hole in your thecal sac and fluid is still leaking out.