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Neurology (Expert Forum)
Light-headed and Vision Problems
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Light-headed and Vision Problems
by Jêremy, Jul 24, 2003 12:00AM
I was felled by vertigo about 5 years ago and have ever since felt like I was falling to the left. I've gotten used to that and it seems to be unchanging. But over the last six months I have gone light-headed as if I stood up too quickly, and over the same time my vision has been degrading. From sparkles at the periphery at first to sparkles throughout my visual field and flickering at the periphery now. Also my face tingles in a triangle from my eyebrows to my upper lip. My opthalmologist says my eyes are fine and my ENT says my sinuses and ears are fine (including CT scan). My internist did an EKG and heart enzymes and says those showed nothing out of line. He also had an MRI of my brain done and that came out "unremarkable". So I'm looking for avenues to explore to explain my increasing problems, especially the degrading vision.
Doctor's Answer
by CCF-Neuro-M.D.-CS, Jul 26, 2003 12:00AM
The symptoms you are describing could be do to loss of blood flow within the basilar artery (the artery which comes up the back of the brain and supplies the brainstem and back of the brain with blood). The fact that the MRI of the brain was normal is good news, but I would also have a picture of the artery (an MRA) to ensure that it is normal. The other possiblity is that these episodes are related to complicated migraines. If you have not seen a neruologist you need to. Neurologists have a different perspective, and may be able to provide some new suggestions.
