Please help so many sever problems undiagnosed

[aaronh819]

have been having such a terrible time for so long with eye pain and terrible visual disturbances. Been to multiple specialists had an mri ct all with no avail. The last few months it’s became debilitating progressing so fast I have no idea what to do. Having to lay in bed with a wet cloth on my eyes for hours upon hours because of the pain. My eyes have became red also all the time. I’ll try and describe the visual problems or at least what I can think of there’s so much. Terrible visual afterimages constantly seeing everything you look at repeatedly, seeing clear outlines of everything you look at whenever it’s bright, tons of floaters, white dots everywhere whenever looking at the sky or anything bright, flashes of light all the time from white to blue or black. Even when I close my eyes I always see blue light even when I’m a dark room with my eyes closed for hours I can’t ever get rid of this.  I never heard of anyone seeing blue like this all the time with eyes closed. Also have an arc of light in the side of my right eye almost all the time, extremely bad light sensitivity, if I see any glare of light or head or taillights or anything it gets burned into my eyes for minutes. I cannot find help it is progressing so fast I’m beyond terrified. I can even look at my phone or anything and look around and see a black outline of whatever I was looking at for minutes. There is so much more going on with my vision and head pressure and so much more I could never list it all. Some of the other problems are weird pains and feelings in my head muscle twitches almost nonstop sometimes almost feels like something leaking in my head, losing feeling of limbs very regular and so so much more. If anyone has experienced anything like this please help me. I have lost all faith in the medical field just keep getting put off months at a time. I Pray more than anything for healing. Please anyone that can help please. Thank you

[Red_Star]

I found an article on Palinopsia which is interesting. It's pretty long so I cherry picked it but you can google to read the full article.


Excerpts from Bellmarra Health - Palinopsia: Types, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment...

"Palinopsia is defined as the persistent recurrence of a visual image after the stimulus has been removed. It is often described as having an after-image of an object, reappearing briefly after it has been removed from attention."

"Palinopsia is a broad term subdivided into two clinically relevant groups: illusionary and hallucinatory."

"Illusionary palinopsia can occur in migraine sufferers, after hallucinogen use, or be a side effect of prescription drug use, such as when using trazodone, clomiphene, oral contraceptives, or topiramate.

Hallucinatory palinopsia is the manifestation of an image where none previously existed. They are similar to complex hallucinations such as seeing objects, animals, or people that don’t exist. An example of this this: after seeing a cat, an almost identical cat remains fixed in the field of view. This may last for a few seconds or even a few hours in some cases."

"The most commonly observed symptoms of palinopsia:

Visual snow
Visual illusions
Photopsias – presence of perceived flashes
Teleopsia – perception that objects or much further than they are
Oscillopsia – objects appear to oscílate
Cerebral polyopia – seeing two or more images arranged in ordered row, columns, or diagonals
Entoptic phenomena – commonly seen as floaters of varying size in  vision"

"It is believed that much of the reason why people develop palinopsia is due to conditions that affect the brain in the visual processing centers of the occipital lobe. These conditions may include tumors, visual pathway lesions, occipital lobe injury, or even certain medication use. However, palinopsia may also sometimes present in healthy individuals.

Causes of palinopsia include:

Toxicity:
Illicit hallucinogens: Mescaline, LSD, ecstasy

Prescription drugs: clomiphene, interlukin-2, trazodone

Metabolic conditions:
Non-ketotic hyperglycemia

Psychiatric conditions:
Schizophrenia
Psychotic depression

Structural cerebral lesions"

"Clinical diagnosis: Most cases of palinopsia are benign and idiopathic (having an unknown cause). However, hallucinatory palinopsia may be indicative of a more severe disease than its illusionary counterpart but is less common.

Diagnostic procedures: Hallucinatory palinopsia will often include a full ophthalmologic and neurologic history and physical exam. Automated visual field testing, as well as neuroimaging. This is because the hallucinatory type may be associated with serious neurological complications. While these tests may be useful in the illusionary type, they are not the ideal tests for investigating migraines.

Laboratory test: This will often induce the use of neuroimaging studies such as MRI for hallucinatory palinopsia."