Thank you for your time. I am a 35yr. old female. I have a pacemaker, I take amiodarone, cardizem, midodrine, lasix, coumadin, inhalers for asthma, fosamax. Last weekend, I suffered with extreme left eye pain. I could not move my eye correctly, when I looked down my vision was doubled, and the eye movement was terribly painful just above my eye. I took migraine med, put an ice pack on my eyes, and tried to stay still. I woke up during the night in pain, and in the morning it was still there. I took 2 vioxx over the course of the day.
I went to see my PCP for a follow-up for a sinus infection that I had the last 3 weeks. I mentioned the eye pain and he said it did not sound like migraine. He sent me to an opthamologist. At that point (4 days after the pain began) my eye still hurt on movement but not as severe.
The opthamologist said there was a muscle and nerve inflamed and I am having a ct-scan in a couple of days. One thing the doc. did was comparing a red bottle with both eyes. In the unaffected eye it was red, and the other was brown. Since then I have discovered that could be a sign of optic neuritis. Today and yesterday, for the first time my eye is blurry and sore, not just behind it.
So my questions...
Wouldn't the doc. be able to see optic neuritis by looking into my eye? Or is it not necessarily visible? How do they determine if that is the case?
What other problems can cause inflamation behind the eye?
Any input would be helpful.
I cannot have an MRI because I have a pacemaker. Will a CT be sufficient? Thank you so much!!!!