Funny you should ask this question, because it happened to me. I had had a spinal tap done to see if I had any bleeding on the brain, due to an unexplained and unprecedented migraine. There was none, but by puncturing the dura around the spinal cord, it caused a small leak in the spinal fluid. They gave me some medicine to stop the migraine and it never returned, but when I returned home, any time I would stand up, I would get a bad headache.
The leak in the spinal fluid accelerated with gravity causing the brain to depress slightly whenever I stood up, causing the headache. I had to have another procedure called a "blood patch" to seal the leak, and the headaches disappeared.
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