swissyrolly
07-04-10, 19:23
Hi, I'm new, and hope this is the right place to post this! I become very paranoid about my health due to my anxiety and was wondering if anyone else had experienced this.
I see my doctor every week for general checkups and observations, obviously due to the anxiety and everything that comes with it, and in the past 6months or so... the headaches!
Always assumed I get the headaches/migraines (from my neck up along the right side of my head) because I tense up when I'm anxious and I get the nausea and sensitivity to light with it also.
But what's worried my doctor recently is that she's now noticed that one of my eyes (the right-hand one) stays dilated more than the other sometimes.. almost so large that you can barely see the blue of my eye.. just the black pupil that's so large! Sometimes it goes back to normal within 5minutes, at other times I've had it for 2 days.
She thinks maybe it's a sign of something more sinister to do with the headaches and sent me to a neurologist to have tests done but just my luck that my eye was acting perfectly normal on that visit! He did normal tests to see if I'd had a stroke/anuerism/tumour etc.. but as my eye was perfectly fine that day there were no problems. So I'm being referred to a migraine clinic.
HOWEVER!!.. I've been researching online about it and other people say that one of their eyes gets dilated when they feel a rush of adrenaline! And I thought maybe this could be the cause of mine (I much prefer that compared to the whole stroke/tumour thing) and wondered if anyone else here has noticed that it happens to them too during the times they feel most anxious/pumped? Or anything similar?
I see my doctor every week for general checkups and observations, obviously due to the anxiety and everything that comes with it, and in the past 6months or so... the headaches!
Always assumed I get the headaches/migraines (from my neck up along the right side of my head) because I tense up when I'm anxious and I get the nausea and sensitivity to light with it also.
But what's worried my doctor recently is that she's now noticed that one of my eyes (the right-hand one) stays dilated more than the other sometimes.. almost so large that you can barely see the blue of my eye.. just the black pupil that's so large! Sometimes it goes back to normal within 5minutes, at other times I've had it for 2 days.
She thinks maybe it's a sign of something more sinister to do with the headaches and sent me to a neurologist to have tests done but just my luck that my eye was acting perfectly normal on that visit! He did normal tests to see if I'd had a stroke/anuerism/tumour etc.. but as my eye was perfectly fine that day there were no problems. So I'm being referred to a migraine clinic.
HOWEVER!!.. I've been researching online about it and other people say that one of their eyes gets dilated when they feel a rush of adrenaline! And I thought maybe this could be the cause of mine (I much prefer that compared to the whole stroke/tumour thing) and wondered if anyone else here has noticed that it happens to them too during the times they feel most anxious/pumped? Or anything similar?