Symptoms

Pseudotumor cerebri signs and symptoms might include:

• Often severe headaches that might originate behind your eyes
• A whooshing sound in your head that pulses with your heartbeat
• Nausea, vomiting or dizziness
• Vision loss
• Brief episodes of blindness, lasting a few seconds and affecting one or both eyes
• Difficulty seeing to the side
• Double vision
• Seeing light flashes
• Neck, shoulder or back pain

Sometimes, symptoms that have resolved can recur months or years later.