Neuro follow up tomorrow

[Aspigander]

Just for anyone who may be interested, I see the neurologist for a follow up tomorrow. I went about a month ago after my ophthalmologist referred me because I had weird visual disturbances and nothing in the eye could account for it. It seemed to be "ocular migraines", but I was having them more frequently than one would expect. She had me seen by a retina specialist (which checked out find) and ordered an MRI. I'll learn the results of the MRI tomorrow.

I hadn't had the ocular migraines for a while, but just the other night (same night as the lightheadedness/feeling cold/chest pressure/palpitations, but hours earlier), I had two episodes where I had a bit of flickering in the center of the vision, enough I thought "here we go again", but they never developed into anything. Just today I had a couple flickering episodes. And a headache (mild), which ibuprofen took care of.

So I'll have to type something up and email it to my mom to print off. She thinks I should put the stuff from the other night in there as well. I'll definitely be mentioning the flickering episodes.

So, we'll see what happens.

[Aspigander]

Okay, the MRI checked out okay, as did, of course, the retina exam. Those were the two things the neurologist was worried about, something in the retina or something in the brain causing the visual disturbances, and neither seems to be the case.

So we're back to thinking ocular migraines. The most recent symptoms seem better than they were recently, in that I'd have flickering in the center of my vision but it wouldn't spread out and disrupt a lot of the visual field as it did before. She said sometimes they go away as quickly as they can come on. She said there are a few things that can trigger it, stress being one. I asked about anxiety, and she said sure, that's stress.

At least now I don't have to be anxious when it happens.

[Mother's Heart]

glad the retina exam/mri were clear. yay!
I don't remember, did they do an EEG?

Ocular migraines are awful funky things. I hope yours go away shortly.
I guess there's yet another motivation for developing coping techniques for the anxiety. sigh. it aint never easy, is it?