Any one give me some hope - General Health Message Board

jdn5764 · 04-07-2008, 03:31 AM

I'm getting fed up feeling like this.
Over xmas I had a very short lived cold, sore throat, which took longer to come out than it actually lasted.
A week after it had gone I started to feel as if I was coming down with flu, felt very lethrgic no energy. On the 9th January, I had the most awful headache like my brain was going to touch my skull. Since then things have just gotten worse.
12th January I started to get a boring type pain in the eyebrow from the notch going into the bend of the nose. Went to my Dr said it could be sinus and told me to get OTC nasal spray. TWo days later i went to an emergency Dr as I could not stand the pain was told it was a cluster headache. Take paracetamol, it would go in a day or two. My eyelid had swelled and was dark brown in colour and also under my eye.
A week after that I started to get an swollen type feeling in the pink blob on the corner of my eye. Went to the opticians and they said nothing was wrong.
This swelling continued to move up, casuing pressure on my eye.
The vision in that eye has closed in, (my other eye is lazy so I rely on this eye). The vision is odd. I have had bouts where, the vision nose side has blocked off when the tissues feel l swollen.. It feels as if my eye is being pulled inwards although it look okay.
I also get a "sun blind" type blob in that eye and it seems as if I have to look around it. I'm very scared.
I went to an eye speciliast who said it could be sinus issues, but I don't know if it would affect the vision like that.
When I lay down, I start ot get pain, of the swelling feeling. I have a constant "barking" type cough, I also have post nasal drip which can be thick white. My Temp is always low, its around 35.5 - 36 when I'm well, but it has been around 37 since this started. I feel off and smell sweaty all the time no matter how much I wash.
I hope it is just a sinus issue that the symptoms (especially the eye one) will go away once it has cleared. I have been on 4 weeks of ethrymicin but my Dr won't give me anymore. I'm at my wits end as I want my eye back.
Does anyone else had this type of thing or agree that it could be all sinus related
Thank you

katy1766 · 04-07-2008, 05:06 AM

Have you tried getting a referral for a good eye, ears, nose and throat doctor? Someone who will do the necessary tests to find out what's going on.

jdn5764 · 04-07-2008, 05:28 AM

Yes I have been to an eye Dr and he thinks it could be sinus, and to go back to him if the Ear nose and throat Dr (who I see on the 10th April) says its not sinus.

I;m worried sick at the moment, its been going on for 12 weeks now

geezgeez · 04-07-2008, 05:42 AM

If I was in your situation I would demand a CT scan of the head, if you had a CT scan and it came back all clear then i would think that this would make you feel much much better.

jdn5764 · 04-07-2008, 08:08 AM

I have been to my Gp and demanded one, but he said he can't refer me.
the eye specalist said he would do one if the ENT Dr said it wasn't sinus issue.

I'm losing a battle and my eyesight how the way this is going.