ethan2003
20-04-22, 00:40
Hi there, I'm Ethan. I've been suffering with headaches and pain in the back of my eyes constantly for the past 5-6 days. Exposure to bright/white lights hurt a lot, and I'm often getting a blurry/cloudy vision.
I'll start by explaining that this all occurred after a series of moments (over the past few weeks) where I've experienced chest pains, testicular pains, pains in my arms and legs, and tingly sensations in my fingers. I was taken to A&E a couple weeks back for chest pains, had bloods done and all came back clear. A week later I was having pains in my testicle, went to the doctor and he said that he doesn't notice anything unusual. All these symptoms correlated with each other.
After I came back from the doctors, I found a lump on the back of my head and instantly thought brain tumour (since it hurt to the touch). Even though BT's aren't usually on the exterior on the skull, I still searched for the symptoms and immediately began to feel them. From that moment I have had the headaches, pain the back of my eyes, tingly sensations, numbness in my leg, sometimes blurry vision, etc. When I think about the BT or symptoms they immediately become more strong, and that's usually when I start testing my vision and feel like everything's blurry. The more I think about the symptom, the more I get it? This leads onto health anxiety. I know a lot of people on this forum have experienced the same thing, most people say it's HA, but if you're really concerned go see a doctor or get an eye test.
I try my best to convince myself it's health anxiety, but no matter the amount of reassurance from people the pains remain and the constant thought of it being a BT does too. We're in the middle of the Easter holidays, so I've essentially had nothing to do besides think about these problems. I do & don't want to go see a doctor/optician about this, mainly because I don't want to know if I actually have it or not. I want the reassurance it's not, but afraid that something bad may actually come from it. I haven't had seizures yet, the blurry vision is not constant (only comes on when I think about it), but the headaches and pains are consistent from the moment I wake up, till the moment I go to sleep.
I have been very forgetful at the minute, don't really want to eat, slur my words, but all of these things can be caused by anxiety too... which is one of the biggest factors. Most of the symptoms can be replicated and caused by either diagnosis.
Any word of reference based on my specific situation/symptoms would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I'll start by explaining that this all occurred after a series of moments (over the past few weeks) where I've experienced chest pains, testicular pains, pains in my arms and legs, and tingly sensations in my fingers. I was taken to A&E a couple weeks back for chest pains, had bloods done and all came back clear. A week later I was having pains in my testicle, went to the doctor and he said that he doesn't notice anything unusual. All these symptoms correlated with each other.
After I came back from the doctors, I found a lump on the back of my head and instantly thought brain tumour (since it hurt to the touch). Even though BT's aren't usually on the exterior on the skull, I still searched for the symptoms and immediately began to feel them. From that moment I have had the headaches, pain the back of my eyes, tingly sensations, numbness in my leg, sometimes blurry vision, etc. When I think about the BT or symptoms they immediately become more strong, and that's usually when I start testing my vision and feel like everything's blurry. The more I think about the symptom, the more I get it? This leads onto health anxiety. I know a lot of people on this forum have experienced the same thing, most people say it's HA, but if you're really concerned go see a doctor or get an eye test.
I try my best to convince myself it's health anxiety, but no matter the amount of reassurance from people the pains remain and the constant thought of it being a BT does too. We're in the middle of the Easter holidays, so I've essentially had nothing to do besides think about these problems. I do & don't want to go see a doctor/optician about this, mainly because I don't want to know if I actually have it or not. I want the reassurance it's not, but afraid that something bad may actually come from it. I haven't had seizures yet, the blurry vision is not constant (only comes on when I think about it), but the headaches and pains are consistent from the moment I wake up, till the moment I go to sleep.
I have been very forgetful at the minute, don't really want to eat, slur my words, but all of these things can be caused by anxiety too... which is one of the biggest factors. Most of the symptoms can be replicated and caused by either diagnosis.
Any word of reference based on my specific situation/symptoms would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!