Recently I have been experiencing strange sudden vision loss that will last for up to 40 minutes at a time. Pretty friggin scary, just saying! It starts out as a tiny spot of vision that I can't see out of, sort of like if you looked at a bright light too long and you see a spot afterwards. Then it starts to spread and I lose all of my peripheral vision. This has happened 3 times and was followed by a headache. This past time that it happened I also had double vision. If I looked at my face in the mirror I couldn't focus on it at all. So scary!!
So, I did what any normal person would do (once their vision decided to come back) and google search what the possible reason could be....yeah, that's normal, right? Google had it narrowed down to two possibilities: glaucoma or a brain tumor. This is the part where I started crying and freaking out.
When it happened last week for the third time, my husband forced me to go to the hospital. They dilated my eyes and after 5 hours of people shining light in my eyes and shrugging (and one doctor rolling his eyes at me) they decided that it must just be an early onset symptom of an upcoming migraine... really?? So, I freaked out and imaged my "new life" as a blind person, never being able to see my daughter's face again or never being able to create my art ever again for no reason at all?! I'm not saying that I'm not THRILLED that it may be just a stupid migraine, but come on Google! Way to give a girl a heart attack!
(this is my dilated pupil grumpy face)
I still have to follow up with a Retina Specialist and a Neurologist/Headache Specialist, and get a possible scan so I guess I'm not completely out of the woods yet, but the ophthalmologist confirmed that I definitely don't have glaucoma, so that's a definite plus! Keep your fingers crossed for me anyway though, please! I'm a big sissy when it comes to going to the doctors.
Am I the only one that does this? Have you ever Google searched a medical issue, and had a mini freakout?
