Posted: 10/5/2009 5:26:29 AM EDT
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56, a bit overweight, otherwise good health.
I awoke with sudden massive vision distotions last Friday morning. It is in either eye alone or both at once and is making it very difficult to read or type. I went into the ER, and CAT scans, bloodwork, and all that stuff found nothing but elevated BP. It was high all right, 225/130 at admission, dropped to 180/120 in a while. No TIA or stroke. No eye problems, They ran 2 doses of anti high BP meds into an IV, to no avail, and released me 7 hours later with a script to fill of Hydralzine. Meds are making me ill. I still cannot see. WTF is wrong, and will this ever improve? Seriously, this is taking a long time to type and reading is very very difficult. |
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I'm 24, but had similar issues not too long ago.
Mine was a pinched nerve in my neck. Sitting at a desk all day made it worse. Have any neck stiffness? Been to a chiropractor recently? I had a weird sort of tunnel vision, but with an unfocused/blind spot in the center of my field of vision. couldn't focus on peripheral or centered things, but could somewhat on things in between... Driving could be interesting, and typing/reading sucked... |
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I'll keep this short since you are having trouble reading.
You belong IN a real hospital until this is correctly diagnosed. Don't go to a small, backwater hospital. You need a real hospital. Call your family doc and insist on admission until diagnosed. Oh, and don't drive. |
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Thanks for the larger script, I appreciate it.
No neck problems, thanks though. I went into a major Longview TX ER, level 2 Trauma center, usually a very good place. They seemed very nonchalant and blamed it all on the high BP and sent me home without fixing it. 7 hours in a horrible overcrowded disease filled place was almost more than I could take. I don't even have a regular doctor, as it takes months on waiting lists to get an appt. amd they usually pass you off to a minion anyway. Can high BP alone do this permanently? I feel like I am typing by braille and I have to get my work done somehow. |