kimmiepie
05-08-09, 19:44
Hi!
I have experienced weird things for years now. For several years I have experienced dizziness and a fullness in the left side of my head/ear. I had an MRI (one with contrast and one without) 2.5 years ago and they were clear. I have had all sorts of stuff...balance issues, vision issues, burning in hands and feet as well as eyes.
Well, I was doing better after the scans. I felt relieved. I decided to have another baby. He is 6 months old now. While I was pregnant with him I developed a blind spot in my left eye. When I close my right eye my left eye sees a blind spot straight ahead. It is not floaters, I have a billion of those. I went to an opthamologist who said my optic nerve looked inflamed. He said he wasn't too worried and told me to come back after the baby was born. I went to the neurologist about this and he said to get another MRI after the baby is born. Well, I lost my insurance and I haven't been able to get back in to either one.
I'll be getting insurance again in September so I was trying my best not to panic in the mean time. The dizziness, burning and the blind spot are all still there! I even sometimes have tingling on that side of my head/face. The scary thing is that I sometimes get headaches just on that side of my head, which I don't recall ever having had before. Especially when I am ill, and I get an illness headache, it really hurts on that side more than the other. Sometimes I feel a pulse on that side. I'm starting to freak out thinking I have an aneurysm or tumor that is new and wasn't seen on my past MRI's. I'm also a little concerned about having MS because I know it can take a while to show up and one of the first signs of MS is optic nerve issues.
Well, still trying to hold on and not freak...then a lady on one of my other boards was having some dizziness, headaches on the left side behind her ear etc. and went in for a MRI and they found 3 tumors. :scared15: I am totally freaking out now. I don't want to have to wait until September (mid), but I have no choice. I am so scared that I have something that will kill me before I get the MRI done.
I know that in reality the dizziness, full head/ear thing has been around for years...that's probably nothing. But the optic nerve thing and the left sided headaches are "newer" and I"m scared that is something new.
:weep: I'm scared.
I have experienced weird things for years now. For several years I have experienced dizziness and a fullness in the left side of my head/ear. I had an MRI (one with contrast and one without) 2.5 years ago and they were clear. I have had all sorts of stuff...balance issues, vision issues, burning in hands and feet as well as eyes.
Well, I was doing better after the scans. I felt relieved. I decided to have another baby. He is 6 months old now. While I was pregnant with him I developed a blind spot in my left eye. When I close my right eye my left eye sees a blind spot straight ahead. It is not floaters, I have a billion of those. I went to an opthamologist who said my optic nerve looked inflamed. He said he wasn't too worried and told me to come back after the baby was born. I went to the neurologist about this and he said to get another MRI after the baby is born. Well, I lost my insurance and I haven't been able to get back in to either one.
I'll be getting insurance again in September so I was trying my best not to panic in the mean time. The dizziness, burning and the blind spot are all still there! I even sometimes have tingling on that side of my head/face. The scary thing is that I sometimes get headaches just on that side of my head, which I don't recall ever having had before. Especially when I am ill, and I get an illness headache, it really hurts on that side more than the other. Sometimes I feel a pulse on that side. I'm starting to freak out thinking I have an aneurysm or tumor that is new and wasn't seen on my past MRI's. I'm also a little concerned about having MS because I know it can take a while to show up and one of the first signs of MS is optic nerve issues.
Well, still trying to hold on and not freak...then a lady on one of my other boards was having some dizziness, headaches on the left side behind her ear etc. and went in for a MRI and they found 3 tumors. :scared15: I am totally freaking out now. I don't want to have to wait until September (mid), but I have no choice. I am so scared that I have something that will kill me before I get the MRI done.
I know that in reality the dizziness, full head/ear thing has been around for years...that's probably nothing. But the optic nerve thing and the left sided headaches are "newer" and I"m scared that is something new.
:weep: I'm scared.