I am a 29 year old female. I have had sharp headaches, toothpick like, for as long as I can remember. I had pain behind my eyeball, that made me want to rip my eyeball out, in march of this year for 8 weeks. It went away for a month or so and then came back in July. I saw an optometrist and was prescribed glasses for astigmatism. They also did a digital picture of my eye to check the arteries/veins behind my eye. The glasses have not helped. The pain comes and goes but is affecting my quality of life greatly! I have had CT scans and MRI scans as well. I will give all "positive" findings... MRA Brain 6/14/10: Minimal RIGHT P1 segment hypoplasia but impression was unremarkable MRI/MRA brain. CT Brain 11/5/10 after slip and fall: Mild opacity within a couple of bilateral ethmoid air cells. Area of hyperostosis immediately adjacent to the left IAC, perhaps idiopathic, other possibility being indirect evidence of lesion such as meningioma. No definite mass in this location on the prior MRI from June. MRI Brain/IAC 11-12-10: Single opacified LEFT ethmoid air cell. Small focal hyperostosis along posterior wall of the LEFT IAC and contacts the vestibular nerve, could be developmental or due to benign dural calcification. No neural compression or displacement appreciated. MRI/MRA Brain 3-28-11 Questionable small arachnoid cyst in the LEFT cerebellopontine angle cistern measuring 13 mm x 8 mm. Mild ethmoid sinus mucosal thickening. RIGHT posterior communicating artery is prominent, as before. There is questionable subtle fenestration of the proximal basal artery.
I have seen a neurologist, 2 optometrists, and had all these studies done and do not have an answer of the orbital pain. I also get very tense in my shoulder that goes up my neck and into the back of my head. Sometimes it happens after the orbital pain. I am in desperate need of answers!!