nadine02
08-02-13, 11:00
Hi,
I went for an eye test last week (I hadn't been for 10 years) and as the title says she's referred me to the hospital!
She said my eyesight is fine and just prescribed me some glasses with a very slight prescription to use if my eyes get tired when reading or using the pc etc. I was told the optic disc appearance looks healthy and my eye pressure is normal and the same in both eyes!
I did the visual field test and failed it twice with my left eye (I passed it with the right eye). I do have a lesion on the back of my left eye which I've had since I was a child (20+ years ago)...I was referred to the hospital at the time and was discharged and told it was nothing! At my eye test 10 years ago the lesion was still there but the optician can't have been concerned about it because he hardly mentioned it...Anyway the reason for the referral this time is to look at the lesion and to do a reassessment of the visual field test....She's also wrote that the visual field defect doesn't fully correspond with the lesion!
I'm worried sick! I've always suffered with health anxiety and don't cope very well at all in situations like this! It seems like all I've done since I came back from the eye test is Google and nothing that I've read has eased my mind at all! I've been doing online visual field tests and the results from them seem to be getting worse...My anxiety's through the roof!
I did call the opticians and spoke to one who didn't do my eye test (the one who did is a locum) she said she'd read through my notes and has told me not to worry! She said a brain tumour would show a defect in both eyes! She said if I had MS then my eyes would hurt if I move them around and also that red things wouldn't look so red with one eye. I asked about eye cancer and she said "It could be but that would cause my eyes to have different pressure in them and mine were the same and that the lesion would've looked different to what it does!".....So if there's nothing to worry about, why are they sending me for further tests!! I'm an absolute nervous wreck and when I'm not sitting here crying, I'm sitting here Googling, which I know is probably the worst thing to do!
Have any of you ever had or know anyone who's ever had these problems? Any help would be appreciated....Thanks for reading!
I went for an eye test last week (I hadn't been for 10 years) and as the title says she's referred me to the hospital!
She said my eyesight is fine and just prescribed me some glasses with a very slight prescription to use if my eyes get tired when reading or using the pc etc. I was told the optic disc appearance looks healthy and my eye pressure is normal and the same in both eyes!
I did the visual field test and failed it twice with my left eye (I passed it with the right eye). I do have a lesion on the back of my left eye which I've had since I was a child (20+ years ago)...I was referred to the hospital at the time and was discharged and told it was nothing! At my eye test 10 years ago the lesion was still there but the optician can't have been concerned about it because he hardly mentioned it...Anyway the reason for the referral this time is to look at the lesion and to do a reassessment of the visual field test....She's also wrote that the visual field defect doesn't fully correspond with the lesion!
I'm worried sick! I've always suffered with health anxiety and don't cope very well at all in situations like this! It seems like all I've done since I came back from the eye test is Google and nothing that I've read has eased my mind at all! I've been doing online visual field tests and the results from them seem to be getting worse...My anxiety's through the roof!
I did call the opticians and spoke to one who didn't do my eye test (the one who did is a locum) she said she'd read through my notes and has told me not to worry! She said a brain tumour would show a defect in both eyes! She said if I had MS then my eyes would hurt if I move them around and also that red things wouldn't look so red with one eye. I asked about eye cancer and she said "It could be but that would cause my eyes to have different pressure in them and mine were the same and that the lesion would've looked different to what it does!".....So if there's nothing to worry about, why are they sending me for further tests!! I'm an absolute nervous wreck and when I'm not sitting here crying, I'm sitting here Googling, which I know is probably the worst thing to do!
Have any of you ever had or know anyone who's ever had these problems? Any help would be appreciated....Thanks for reading!