Trouble opening eyelids

[paulettefan1]

Can't open eyelid in the morning
12 minutes ago in the Neurology Community
I have had this same issue with not being able to open my left eye more so than the right. I had a concussion in May 2010 and a few months later this started. I would be wide awake and my eyelids did not move I have to use my fingers to spread the eyelids open. My neurologist does not feel it is neurological because my MRI is clean. He said it is depression

[yarrow]

Have you been checked out for sleep apnea.  Your nighttime struggling for breath sounds a great deal like that.

[paulettefan1]

Myasthenia gravis  was and is my concern because when I lay down I feel like something blocks my nasal passage and throat which makes it difficult to breath. I wake up out of a sound sleep struggling to get air.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[allmymarbles]

Anxiety is often caused by high cortisol.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Far less than the number of people that are seeing physicians for "medical" problems and they should be seeing a psychiatrist for anxiety or depression or other psychological problem

JCH MD

[allmymarbles]

There is an unfortunate tendency to ascribe an emotional problem to ailments they cannot diagnose. I wonder how many people are seeing psychiatrists when they should be treated medically.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Find a neuro ophthalmologist near you at www.aao.org and see for an evaluation. Myasthenia gravis needs to be excluded.

JCH MD