fluorescein angiogram

[Kateri7]

Hello,

I am 30 years young and have had a fluorescein angiogram about two weeks ago due to blurry/loss vision and change from far sighted all my life (with strabismus) to near sighted (of course I still have the strabismus) in my right eye. The cloudy blurriness I had is gone but the vision loss is the same. The retinal surgeon did find two layers of scar tissue and a big vein under that tissue, and a frawn of veins I believe he said, and some bleeding. Apparently this is pulling on my retina causing the problem so they decided to do the mentioned test. I have not heard the results of this test of yet as my appointment isn't until the 28th. Anyhow, two days before the test was taken I started having a sort of headache behind my right eye and after the angiogram I had very bad headaches that causeed nausea for 3 days straight. As well, I have had before some tingling sensations on my right hand side of my head and in my leg. These tingly sensations i have had off and on for about a year now though. But after this test they are worse, mostly the tinglies on my right side of my head, along with the headaches that are all right sided as well. A few days ago as I closed my eyes to kiss my husband no less I saw this huge z shaped bright light even as my eyes were closed. I opened and it was gone. Do you have any idea as to what this could be? And I am just wondering if I should bother my doctor or not to let him know what is going on. To me it seems really weird I am still having these symptoms of headache and the tingles.

Thank you for your time and concideration.

[Sandra M Brown, MD]

The headaches and tingling are unlikely to be related to the fluorescein as you urinate out all the excess dye in 24 hours.  This unusual group of symptoms makes me think of either migraine or multiple sclerosis.  There is no reason why you should have to wait for 2 weeks to learn the results of a fluorescein angiogram.  You should call your doctor.

[Kateri7]

I think my opthomologist might just be trying to lighten the load on my pocket by spacing out my appointments. I have to pay out of pocket for everything and its quite expensive. Thank goodness for financial assistance! State services take for ever but its better than nothing at all. Ahh nothing like the waiting game. Here in NY they have made it a rule that you must come in and hear the results and unless its something life threatening you might never get a call just a letter saying that you need to make an appointment to see them, at least that is the experience I have had as far as assistance services go. When I had private insurance I had no problems with other doctors giving me results over the phone or appointments right away. Not only that they have the Retinal Disease Specialist working on this with my Opthomologist and he is only in once a week I believe. So I will have to look at the bright side and stay patient. Although I did call into them to let them know what had been happening.

Thank you Dr. for the information, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my post.