Hello all! My name is Lee, I’m 35 and a mother of one. On the 23rd September, I was up and ready for work, the usual shouting for my 12 year old Son to get up! I was feeling fine and then BAM! I had a explosion in my eyes, I felt dizzy and thought I was going to pass out so I lay on my bed thinking… great! Just what I need a Migraine!
The headache that followed was EXCRUCIATING! And I thought this was one hell of a migraine. My husband called and could not understand a word I was saying but as I (thought) I had been sleeping we thought nothing more of it. After 3 days the “aura” that I would normally see in-front of my eyes was still present so I visited the GP who put it down to Migrainism but referred me to the Ophthalmologist where my eyes were deemed healthy.
After two weeks with no improvement to my vision, and a terrible short term memory I was referred to Acute Medicine where a CT scan was carried out, nothing came back out of the ordinary, a MRI scan was ordered… with a 18 week waiting list. 3 weeks later with still no improvement I the Consultant seen me in his clinic and ordered the MRI where it came back that my Optic Nerves to the brain were inflamed.
He admitted me there and then, wanting to run tests for MS. Lumber punctures, blood tests and a MRA were carried out and the diagnosis 6 weeks after was a Right PCA stroke. Both my eyes are effected, the way I describe it is looking through a T.V that needs tuned it. I have constant white noise in my ears, my memory is awful for short term things.
Sorry to have rambled on! I was given very little information when discharged on what to expect etc.
