pressure behind one eye

Carlysan,

Hi, I have the same problem.  I have been seeing a neurologist for oveer two years now for my migraines and that is a systom of migraines.  I usally get my migraines on the right side, and they are concentrated around my eye and temple area.  The more stress I am under the more intense the tingling around my temple and pressure behind my eye becomes.  My doctor told me that this is a common side effect and that my body is trying to tell me to slow down and relax.  I did go through a CAT scan and a MRI to make sure there was nothing wrong, but these are common side effects to migraines.  Hope this helps.

Dakota5

 

I don't want to worry you! BUT you need to get a diagnosis for this as soon as possible. I had a drooping right eye with a feeling of pressure behind it, and slight dizziness, for about a year. I dismissed it partly through laziness and partly through fear. Only when it got worse did I finally get to see an eye doctor, and they found an orbital tumour about the size of a walnut growing in there. I have just had it removed, and it was benign (most of the slow-growing painless type are benign, but they can eat through bone and other tissues if you don't get them whipped out quickly). Of course there are lots of other explanations for yours, like possible hyperthyroidism and diabetes etc, but specific pressure behind one eye is not normally just due to stress. Does the eye feel especially bulgy and firm when pressed? Can you move your right eye and see as far upwards with it as you can with your left?

You'll feel happpier when you've got it tested and scanned. Best of luck and take care

My wife suffered from pressure behind her left eye. A CAT scan revealed a walnut sized bulge behind her eye. An MRI revealed it to be a tumor (not fluid). Orbital surgery removed it. It was NOT benign! Biopsy showed it to be Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the lacrimal gland (tear gland). Because the surgery showed invasion of the bone of the orbit she had proton beam radiation.

She is doing well 2 1/2 years after the surgery. But, her family practices doctor gets a superstar for being persistent and getting the CAT scan and following it with an MRI. Her ENT reviewed the CAT scan and sent her home with a diagnosis of "nothing found, see an opthalmologist in a year or two."

Since then we have learned of dozens of people with the same symptoms and the same results. If treated promptly and the tumor is slow growing then a good prognosis is likely.

I just came here because my own migraines- I've had them since childhood - have become an almost daily occurence with several trips to the emergency room when the Imitrex doesn't work. I first remember having a migraine at the age of 9 during the final rounds of a chess tournament.

Hey! To the person who is 26. I'm 27 and having the same issue! Mine has been going on for about two years or maybe more and I've just been too lazy and scared to do anything, but now it's getting worse and making me worry. I've had some issues with feeling like something crawls across my brain too when this happens and I get dizzy, but that hasn't happened in over a year now. But the pressure gets so bad that it almost feels like either my eye is getting bigger or like it's being pressed out of my head. It's scary and I do get really bad migraines, so I had just chalked it up as a sympton. Please keep me updated with what you find out.

Thanks, Jennifer.

Hi guys, just been diagnosed with a tumor behind my right eye after a CT scan following a fall over a week ago. The CT scan showed something and I am now told after an MRI scan this morning that there is a tumor and it is larger than first suspected. Strangely I don't feel that worried or panicky, but I put that down to my ignorance LOL.

For me, the most amazing thing is that in less that 24 hrs of going to hospital regarding a fall I am due to see an oncologist, the treatment and care by the medical staff has been amazing and all of this in Eastern Europe ( I am a brit living in Latvia)

Of course, my next big decision is whether to stay here and receive treatment or return to the UK where there is the possiblity of newer/better treatment, but possibly worse medical practice..... looks like coin tossing time :)

What I have read here is, although sad, encouraging news that it is treatable.... best of luck and best wishes to all u guys

I get these headaches where my left eye hurts like a bad headcold I have had sinus problems so I thought it was that my sinus dr said it was fine and sent me to a eye dr. he said it was fine and sent me to a nueroloigist . My pain is very bad left eye, also left ear like an ear infection and a headache in the back left side on a knot above my neck. the Dr has been giving me anti siezure cocktails and it has finally helped . down side is I never want to get up out of bed. which can be a problem. I have suffered Migrianes since i was a wee lad so headaches are not new to me sinus or migraine. but this was bad all you could point right to. other headaches you would say over here it hurts somewhere or somewhere over here this is spot on is this what yours seems to my dr calls them cluster headaches.

48 year old male

I have a similar issue. I have a great deal of pressure behind my right eye. It began a few months ago. I figured I needed glasses, but I'm far more concerned after doing a bit of research. Not only is my eyelid starting to sag, but my eye is starting to twitch- which I've read may be because of something (either a tumor or an artery) pressing on nerves that control the face. I was diagnosed with Migraine maybe five or so years ago, but my neurologist never found anything odd in my MRIs (save for a caved in sinus, also on my right side). I've just received a health insurance card in the mail this week, and am looking for a new primary and eye doctor. I'm getting nervous as to what the verdict will be...but as someone wrote before, I hope there's something there, because at least it gives me an answer. If this is all happening for no reason then I think I may just go crazy.




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I forgot to mention that for the most part I would rather close my eyes or sleep most the time. There is also some burning (part of the same or more part of the winter and forced air heat.)

hello my name is lisa im 23years old for the last year 1 1/2 i have had really bad sore head sometimes cant cope with them, been back and forward to the eye clinc at hospital they said my eyes are fine, but for the last 7 months i have had this pressure behind my right eye and it's getting worst sometimes goes blured i dont know what to do, can any one help me i just want to be safe as i have ma little boy's to look after xxxx

i have been stressed a bit but not much, my neck is not sore tho, i woke up this morining ma head feels worst and feels more pressure behind my eye ...

as a new member, I would like to offer the following opinion re pain behind the eye. I have had this for at least 25 years - it occurs haphazardly - and I have put it down variously to stress, sinus, allergy.

Recently, a lump grew on the side of my neck; the lump grew overnight, and it was the size of a golf ball - 6 cms across and very visible, and very rare for a male in their 50's. I now have to have my thyroid removed as the thyroid is bleeding into itself, the lump re-grows after being drained of fluid, and the  lump is too large to keep performing FNA's. My theory is that given bulging eyes is a common symptom of hyperthroidism, couldn't pain behind the eye be related to an overactive thyroid? My right eye goes blurry from time to time, and then returns to normal a few days later.  - the left eye is ok. This may also be associated with the thyroid.

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took effexor about 8 years had this same pain behind my right eye doctors were inconclusive last few years of effexor it was added to the side effect label {pain behind right eye} yet i quit taking this medicine it stile comes n goes not as bad ... believed to be a permanent side effect form an ingredient
in the medications and other medications as well