shaunnajadelle
01-05-13, 14:47
I think throughout my health worries, the worst one has been MS, like some of the rest of you on here, but I had symptoms last year before I started becoming anxious of my health. I woke up one day with eyeball pain when I moved the eye, and a killer headache developed on the same side of the head. As I wasn't anxious at this point, I carried on as normal. It was painful (only when I moved the eye, pain from the back of eye, not soreness) and seemed to just disappear itself after a week ish.
I thought nothing else of it, until 6 weeks later when the same thing happened in the OTHER eye only, but this time, the headache came on first, then the eye pain when moving the eye. If I kept the eye still, it didn't ache. Again, this disappeared after 8 days this time. I visited the doctor this time who sent me to A&E and only then did I start to become concerned about it. In A&E they checked 'pressure' behind my eye and on my brain and said there was no pressure and put it down to migraine or cluster headaches but referred me to the outpatients eye specialists at a later date. At this point, the eye pain had gone though so I didn't go to the appointment as I thought it was just 'eye ache'.
Bearing in mind throughout these eye 'ache' episodes, my vision appeared to be fine as far as I'm aware.
But months and months later now, when I've read about MS, I've pretty much felt my stomach sink and think the eye pain could have been optic neuritis, which if I've gathered correctly, is often a first symptom of MS? I used to suffer from vertigo spells for days at a time when I was about 17 which came and went without explanation but I also put this down to nothing important.
Although at the minute I have no eye pain or noticeable ailments, my whole life is now revolving around what this unexplained eye movement pain could have been and that it is an early MS symptom. I'm literally inconsolable right now, my family think it's just health anxiety, but I'm convinced it was a legit symptom :( I suppose I just thought I'd post my thoughts for any possible miracle reassurance!
Thanks guys x
I thought nothing else of it, until 6 weeks later when the same thing happened in the OTHER eye only, but this time, the headache came on first, then the eye pain when moving the eye. If I kept the eye still, it didn't ache. Again, this disappeared after 8 days this time. I visited the doctor this time who sent me to A&E and only then did I start to become concerned about it. In A&E they checked 'pressure' behind my eye and on my brain and said there was no pressure and put it down to migraine or cluster headaches but referred me to the outpatients eye specialists at a later date. At this point, the eye pain had gone though so I didn't go to the appointment as I thought it was just 'eye ache'.
Bearing in mind throughout these eye 'ache' episodes, my vision appeared to be fine as far as I'm aware.
But months and months later now, when I've read about MS, I've pretty much felt my stomach sink and think the eye pain could have been optic neuritis, which if I've gathered correctly, is often a first symptom of MS? I used to suffer from vertigo spells for days at a time when I was about 17 which came and went without explanation but I also put this down to nothing important.
Although at the minute I have no eye pain or noticeable ailments, my whole life is now revolving around what this unexplained eye movement pain could have been and that it is an early MS symptom. I'm literally inconsolable right now, my family think it's just health anxiety, but I'm convinced it was a legit symptom :( I suppose I just thought I'd post my thoughts for any possible miracle reassurance!
Thanks guys x