"We checked your brain fluid levels, and it looks like you are a quart low. We'll probably need to replace a gasket."

This happened to this lady who used to date my roommate - she was *always* blowing her nose and decongestants didn't help. Years later she finds out it was spinal fluid leaking through.

She wasn't bright to begin with, but that probably didn't help.

nmrsnr: you mean this is true?

I only clicked to see this. Thank you.

/13 posts to get there? You're all slacking Farkers!

Brain fluid?

(Fox)

Ah.

barefoot in the head: Brain fluid?

(Fox)

Ah.

FOX are actually a bunch of commies that want your precious fluids.

kumanoki: This article doesn't answer a fundamental question:

What does brain fluid smell like? WHAT DOES IT SMELL LIKE?

Like overripe pennies.

mysticcat: Diogenes: mysticcat: I've seen several cases of this in my career. It's not that hard to diagnose. All of the patients had positional rhinorrhea and could reproduce it for me on the spot. It's a great party trick, too.

What can cause it?

Typically trauma, which can be distant and not thought of as severe. Otherwise, its classified as "spontaneous" from connective tissue defects +/- intercranial hypertension.

...wouldn't that be a massive infection vector for the brain? How are these people not walking around with severe encephalitis?

Talk about blowing your nose mind.

I knew it! Every time I have a couple of hits, my nose runs. Clearly these are my brain cells, completely destroyed by pot, and leaking out my nose. I'm gonna have to re-think my woeyy fuffff looiifee

George Clooney talked about having that issue on Letterman a few years ago...he was filming a movie and fell off a horse or something and cracked something in his neck...had a runny nose, as well as some fairly severe pain for a few months before the doc finally found the problem and fixed it..

Link

At this point, I'm not sure I would miss it.

Had brain tumor removed twice and each time the Dr. went up through my nose and through the sinus cavity. The Dr. said if you think your nose is running call a nurse immediately and don't blow your nose.

semiotix: RexTalionis: I saw this episode of Fringe already.

Like most episodes of Fringe, it was just a ripoff of a Grey's Anatomy episode from the prior season.

/there, that should start an interesting flame war
//and all I had to do was admit to watching Grey's Anatomy

I've been told Fringe mostly rips off the X-Files, but I haven't gotten more than three episodes in to confirm that. I trust the person who told me that though, since he owns all the X-Files seasons as well.

Hey Guize, you know what I heard, George Clooney was doing his own stunts and he jumped off a 10 story building without any safety gear. He landed on his feet and BAM, he lost about 1/2 an inch in height. You probably don't notice cause he's such a tall drink of water anyway....so anyway, I heard that he limped away and later he had this pain in the neck and so he went to the local Walgreens and then Pharmicist put a flishlight up his nose and HE SAW HIS BRAIN MATTER CRAWLING DOWN THROUGH HIS SINUS CAVITY TRYING TO ESCAPE. I heard that he immediately ran down the isle and grabbed some WD-40, a tampon, a Kit Kat ( he was hungry you know) a toilet plunger, and a bag of Kraft Caramels (left over from Halloween, I guess) andHE FIXED IT RIGHT ON THE SPOT!!!.
/true story.

kumanoki

This article doesn't answer a fundamental question:

What does brain fluid smell like? WHAT DOES IT SMELL LIKE?


It smells like purple.

wildcat2011: [www.fitnessdestination.com image 420x420]

I just ordered two of those. Great gag gifts for xmas

RexTalionis: ladyfortuna: I've been told Fringe mostly rips off the X-Files, but I haven't gotten more than three episodes in to confirm that. I trust the person who told me that though, since he owns all the X-Files seasons as well.

I just finished season 1. It's sort of like the X-Files, but it also isn't. Judging from only the first season, everything happening in Fringe ties back to the overwhelming arc, whereas X-Files did their one-off monster of the week shows.

They did, but they often slipped a little character development or other small detail in that became important later. Not always of course since it wasn't quite up to Whedon-level, but they did pretty well.

/Started season 8 last night
//Still a fangirl 19 years later

MaudlinMutantMollusk: If that's the case, I must have hydrocephaly

lol me too

/chronic nose blower

RexTalionis: ladyfortuna: /Started season 8 last night

I stopped watching X-Files after season 6 or season 7.

So did I actually, except for a few of the Doggett episodes. Some of the post LA ones were terrible, but a bunch are actually still pretty good in my opinion. I always liked Robert Patrick as an addition though, which puts me in a minority.

Suprised no one posted this.

Robot: "Sir, are you aware that you're leaking coolant at an alarming rate?"
Fry: "Uhh..."
Robot: "Let me just patch you up with some hot resin."
Fry: "I think the leak's stopping itself! Wait...wait...yeah! There we go. Wait...yeah."
Robot: "What sort of robot turns down a free blast of searing hot resin?"

No Rudy Tomjanovich reference? Fark, I am disappoint.

Doctors suck... Went to 6 doctors for trouble breathing, no answers. Googled for 30 minutes and discovered that it was acid reflux.