Something makes light hurt my eyes badly - a lot

[toughilou]

My eye Dr. said there is nothing wrong with my eyes to cause the pain. I had iridotomy on right eye a few weeks ago. I had hoped it would stop the headaches. I quit smoking and had the last of my infected teeth pulled, too. It turns out that my eye doctor was not very forthcoming with me about my angle closure glaucoma. He said it was open angle. Then, he said it was angle closure only in right eye, now he says it's both. This should not cause the pain, though. I do have dry eye and corneal tear erosions. That does not produce severe pain behind the orbits and on the nose and temple, though. They couldn't see infection or anything wrong on the MRI, they said. Well, what is that egglike thingy on the right side of my nose? Could it be the cause of my headaches? There isn't one on the other side. Picture is poor quality. It is a cell pic of my MRI image.  My MD thinks I may have pernicious anemia. Waiting for labs. Bummed out because I know I'm not nuts or a hypochondriac.

[toughilou]

Oh, and Dr. Hagan-anyone who would sue you or any of the good Dr.s here is just a pathetic waste of oxygen. You should be covered under the good samaritan laws since nobody pays you for your valuable input. You and Dr.O are the ones who set me on the right path with my eyes.

[toughilou]

Thank you again, yarrow, my friend. It was very sweet of you to show him the disgusting picture of my bean brain. :D I will submit both your and Dr. Hagan's suggestions to my new MD as I have fired the old one for telling me my problem was depression. Now that's a lol if I ever heard one.

[yarrow]

toughilou, my husband is a professor of human anatomy, and he says that thingy looks suspiciously as though it's either in your maxillary sinus or in the ostium (the opening) of that sinus.  He thinks an ENT doc is the person to ask WHAT the heck it is--even though that might not be what's causing your symptoms.

[toughilou]

Thanks Dr. Hagan, and thank you, yarrow. I can assure you I haven't got a bean in my nose. lol. That's a good one, though. It creeped me out seeing that thing. It wouldn't bother me so much if there was one on the other side.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[yarrow]

I'm not a doc, toughilou, but I am a mom, and, based on experience, I'd say that egglike thingy looks just the bean you find up there when your kid decides his nose is a good place to put stuff.  I assume you're not a kid, so that's probably not a bean, so I think you need to go back to your doc and ask specifically what that oval object is.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Sorry but we don't interpret MRI and CT for medical liability reasons. Work through this with your MDs, if they come up short then ask for a referal to a medical school or to a neuroophthalmologist.

JCH MD