Hi, new member here. Have had health anxiety since I was a kid but generally managed to cope ok. That was until a few months ago. I went for a routine eye exam and was told I’d got big optic nerves and lost some of my peripheral vision. Massive panic ensured. A month later a private ophthalmologist took pictures, did loads of tests, and said no sign of glaucoma, check back in 6 months. The next day (at my grandmothers funeral), I saw a weird light on someone’s face that then disappeared a second later which freaked me out. I’ve been seeing these weird lights on and off most days since. Sometimes it’s a pinprick if light where there shouldn’t be, sometimes it’s a flash off the one side of my central vision. I’ve become obsessed with my eyes and what I’m seeing. When I was in the US with work a few weeks back I saw more and panicked and saw a local retinal specialist ophthalmologist who took pictures, dilated my eyes and said he couldn’t see anything wrong. No sign of PVD or retina tears. When I came back to the UK I went and saw the first doc again and asked him, and he dilated me again and said I was ok. The problem is I still keep seeing these flashes and they’ve never really given me a reason why I might see them. One said maybe a virus, the other said it might be neck tension. Ever time I see something (or think I do) I get a massive surge of heat into my body and down my arms from the panic response and I can be super anxious for hours later. Just when I start to relax and become myself again I see another weird flash of light somewhere that I can’t rationalise away. My GP says to trust them that it’s not serious and has put my on Citalopram 10mg, which I’ve been on for 7 days and noticed no difference.
Anyone else have had similar symptoms? I’ve been googling for weeks and just scare myself with different diagnosis like eye cancer and MS...
So so scared it’s making me sick
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