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What Causes Chronic Pain Behind The Eye Affecting Vision?
WHi, my friend has severe pain behind her right eye that goes to the top her head. It is like being electrocuted with severe head aches that are disabling. Her vision is affected, her sinuses are also affected. She has had an MRI and she is being treated for optic nerve is swollen . She has had a steroid injection which wore off after a couple months and just received another. Could this be something else? At one point mengitis was mentioned as a possibility. Prior to this she had her blood ...pressure suddenly jump to over 180, then this started happening. Any suggestions? Will have my friend fill out complete info, thanks.
Mon, 11 Dec 2017
it may be intracranial pressure resulting in leatherette may be optic neuritis effecting nerve band sinus is not related to such pain refraction maybe done and if error detected it should be corrected. can be temporal artritis or migraine. in that case start taking migrainil one tab and increase up to six tab till improves from all signs and symptoms can be related to hypertention having hypertensive retinopathy. fundus examination to rule out retinopathy may be having micro hemorrhage consult physician for control of hypertention and dieat control with restricted salt dieat. hyper tensive profile can be done,
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