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Posted 8/29/2010 7:37 PM (GMT 0)
Also, there are little blood vessels in this area and they could have a little clot causing those symptoms.  Go to an EENT doctor.

 

Posted 1/19/2011 3:45 PM (GMT 0)
Hello. I am a 23 year old male, suffering from pretty intense migraines for over 8 years now. I have recently begun to notice my right eye lid is a little droopy, getting progressively more droopy over the past year or two, and I am now feeling constant pressure in that eye. My girlfriend and I have noticed on multiple occassions that the same eye is sometimes dilated more so than my left eye. I am playing this all off as migraine side effects, but she is insistant on seeing a physician. What do you guys think?

Thanks!
Posted 1/19/2011 3:47 PM (GMT 0)
I forgot to mention, I do also go through some dizzy/light headed spells randomly. I have had back problems ( multiple disk problems) from playing football. Doubt they are related, but I figured the more info the better. I also had open-heart surgery when I was 14 mos old.
Posted 2/15/2011 2:34 PM (GMT 0)

I think I solved my left eye migraine. After 3 weeks of a dull ache in my forehead that went almost every day to my left eye as a migraine (sound & light sensitive) that only lasted from 10 to 30 minutes. Some days it happened 3 - 4 times. My background is my left eye lost the retina twice after laser surgery that fixed with crystal clear silicon oil in my left eye instead of the gas bubble that the body replaces with your normal vitrious that failed the 1st time. My family doc sent me to the outpatient services to get the doppler ultrasound pictures  of my carotid & leg arteries to see if any were plugged. I passed that. My doc said I had no sinus infections as the previous week when this started and he was on vacation to India, his office prescribed the antibiotic z pack for 5 days that seemed to help but not, after it was gone. Then I went to see my eye doc to check my left eye and he said the pressure is high & prescribed 2 eye drop solutions to get the pressure down (28 left, 20 right - should be around 20). He said to take for 3 months then return. I thought that long and after my family doc told me yesterday when I went to see him, that I should have my eye pressure checked at least once a week until it's back to normal. He also found a post nasal drip that is sinus caused and said to use the $2 bottle of saline nasal spray, which I remember doing every winter in the past when this sort of thing happened (I forgot about it this time - altzheimers coming you know). The nasal spray has already worked and I am waiting for that migraine to occur today even though the dull headaches is gone. The eye pressure will be comfirmed lower today, I hope, so I should be normal.

The whole reason I'm replying is to warn all of you about making sure the eye pressure is taken care of as it leads to glaucoma (a desease that prevents the eye from circulating the inner eye vitrious to the cornea & back through some sort of filter around the eye's lense & damages the optic nerve when this happens in the log term. The drops should reduce the eye's liquid that reduces the pressure that eliminates the headaches.

Another point is my eye doctor who did my laser surgery said eye pressure doesn't cause headaches. My eye lense doctor also said eye pressure doesn't cause headaches but can cause glaucoma, even though he didn't say that in words to me. My family doc, who is internal medine, said eye pressure does cause headaches, and prescribed the fix.

Posted 2/15/2011 4:42 PM (GMT 0)

lisa100986 said...
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've been having daily headaches for about 4 years and was recently put in contact with a physio who reckons I've got a damaged neck and shoulder and the pain from that is being felt in my head because that is where the pain receptors are. The pain starts at the base of my neck and moves across the right side of.my head, ending up in my right eye. The whole process takes.about 1 hour and is now being dealt with by neck and shoulder massage, heat packs on my neck and shoulder and correct posture. He.says.its my muscle.going into spasm when its cold.
Posted 2/15/2011 10:00 PM (GMT 0)

No luck today after my eye doc visit. Had 1 left eye headache before appt then left eye migraine as I waited for doc to arrive after his attending surgeries. He says I do have glaucoma, as that is what high eye pressure is and needs to be lowered somehow, else it can cause blindness by damaging the optic nerve. My eye pressures are 21 left, 20 right now after 1 week eye drops. He thinks my headaches should subside in a couple weeks when the saline nasal solution completes in 2 weeks when my family doc said it should. He also gave me a prescription for a head mri but I will use it if this keeps on. Today the migraine has lasted at least 4 hours since me eye doc appt the most it ever lasted

Posted 2/16/2011 6:39 PM (GMT 0)
@ dirtyhead - It could be quite a few things causing the headache. Your GF's right you need to go see your doctor. It could just be a change in your migraine pattern. It could be opthamolplegic migraine (this is pretty very unlikely though given the rarity and the way your symptoms are presenting quickly). The sudden increasing pressure and droopy eyelid is worrying. You should probably push to get an MRI. Disc problems can cause headache. It's called secondary headache or referred pain. Go see your doctor. Best of luck!

@Jodavicha - your physio could definitely be right. Have the exercises helped at all? I don't know if they would do this 4 years after the pain started, but a course of corticosteroids from your doctor may be helpful. Go to your doctor. While s/he's at it ask him/her to rule out occiptal neuralgia. Best of luck!
Posted 2/28/2011 6:20 AM (GMT 0)
Hi!

So i have been trying to be my own doctor the past 2 years when it comes to my eyes.  I have had a constant ongoing pressure in the back of my right eye, it never goes away!  It makes the bottom of my eye/cheek bone numb.  Looking to the sides hurts and im extremly sensitive to light! I have to close my right eye whenever i am outside and its sunny!!  Looking directly at me, my right eye is smaller then my left and that is a new thing!  I have gone to numerous eye doctors, and specialists for them to look through there eye scopes and see nothing.  They tell me to wear my glasses which don't help the problem at all!  I dont know what the next step is, i dont want to keep pushing it off because the eye doctors dont see a problem.  The pain is enough for me to think something is wrong!

Posted 3/30/2011 12:11 AM (GMT 0)
mYgraine and psychotropics could give you these side effects but is always great to check you for glaucoma, I don't know how old are you guys but is always important to clear you. I know a guy, this was the only symptom he had and they check him for glaucoma and BINGO... he is 27 years old and he is diabetic.
Posted 3/30/2011 12:29 AM (GMT 0)

carlysan said...
hi all

I have ahd pressure behind my right eye and some pressure and tingling in my right temple for about 2 weeks...very strange. Of course i am afraid that it is some sort of tumor or aneurysm or something like that. Has anyone had this before? I have been stressed out lately and i may have some allergies, is this a symptom?? any suggestions or comments are appreciated...thanks, Carlysan

Yes, in both eyes at once or one at a time but not since I got my blood pressure down.

I also have similar symptoms when my allergies act up especially when my indoor plants flower and there is pollen flying in the air. Sometimes it gets so bad I cut all the flowers off, put them in a bag and close it up then open all the windows for a bit.

Post Edited (Glacier) : 3/29/2011 6:40:40 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/11/2011 5:03 AM (GMT 0)
I was reading "EYE PAIN's post on 3/5/07. I have never posted on a site like this and am wondering how to follow-up to see if she ever got a diagnosis? I have the EXACT same symptoms and she is the only other person that described it the same way.
I feel like I don't have vision in my left eye but yet I do. I described it that way to my doctor and even saw a neuro opth and they both have no idea and don't see anything wrong with my eye. Should I insist on an MRI?
Also, yesterday my eyelid was swollen and painful but the swelling went down today, but still sore. I am just constantly aware of my left eye and it is so hard to explain, but it just doesn't feel right, but my vision is perfect.
Posted 4/25/2011 3:05 PM (GMT 0)

iamhappy2be said...
hi! i have pressure behind my right eye. it's worse in the a.m. and after reading. no headaches but the pressure is really bad- all day. my eyelid has gotten saggy. do i visit my g.p. first? am a bit concerned. m


I have had the same problem since March 2009 with pain behind my right eye after reading & also when writing. I have done research on it & it is referred pain from my neck. I also get this pain when I'm looking through the windshield while driving & when I'm in the sunlight. Anyone else have this problem?
Posted 6/10/2011 12:17 AM (GMT 0)
about 4 days ago after a rather large weekend i noticed pressure behind my left eye ball top left. It has been completely intermittent for the last 4 days but i can now feel light pressure there permanently. I am a 31 Year old and have had a fairly all round healthy lifestyle apart from the odd binge drink once every 2 months or so. The only other thing i could put it down to would be the computer screen which i have been staring at alot lately because of a change in jobs about 2 weeks ago, i now stare at a screen for almost 8 hours of the day which i usually get sore eyes from. I realize staring at a screen is obviously not good for the brain or eyes and realize this job is not for me, i do enjoy using my sight. Have any of the eye pressure world had any binge drinking, eye pressure, computer watching related symptoms before LOL.
Posted 7/25/2011 4:11 PM (GMT 0)

I had a similar problem with pain behind my left eye & intense pressure. I get a couple migraines per year and knew it was not my "typical" migraine. I went to several different neurologists & 2 optometrists who couldn't find anything wrong and all dismissed it as an ocular migraine. I was experiencing all kinds of other symptoms and I finally had to quit my job because of it. I tried yet another neurologist who ran different tests which all came back negative and he referred me to a retina specialist. After a day of multiple tests, the last one was a fluorescein angiography and it clearly showed a CSF leak behind the eye. He suspected pseudotumor cerebri and ordered a lumbar puncture. My results ruled that out, but (luckily) I got a debilitating post-lumbar headache and had to have a blood patch in the ER. As the neuroradiologist suggested might happen, the procedure in essence sealed the leak and the pain & pressure was gone! The retina specialist re-ran the test and the leak was no longer there. After a month or so all symptoms resolved and I was able to pick up where I left off.

My suggestion to anyone experiencing something out of the norm is to be persistent if you can, even though others may think you are going to the extreme in trying so many different doctors. It was time-consuming and cost me quite a bit of my savings & a job, but in the end the mystery was solved. Sometimes it just takes finding a doctor who has already treated someone with the same unusual symptoms you feel.

Posted 8/4/2011 6:55 AM (GMT 0)
My wife woke up @ 2;30 am with a headache,tried numerous things to get it to go away. She then left for garden @ 5 am, stayed till  10:30am and drove home, puked once[brkfst] on the way. her right eye is a little swollen, she says it feels like something is going to push her eye right out and she has tremendous headache. no spots before her eyes or anything floating in it.

she already has diabetes and an almost non functioning thyroid.can't quite convince her to c doc but looking for other checks or relief treatments, any suuggg?

Posted 8/12/2011 10:24 AM (GMT 0)
Hey FabFord
I suffer from an arachnoid cyst/hydrocephalus- which is water on the brain, increased intracranial pressure.
What you mentioned with your wife, about waking up at 2:30am with a bad headache and puking etc, very much sounds like raised pressure inside the skull.
Please do get her to a hospital for an emergency CT scan or lumbar puncture to determine if its the case, or even go to specsavers and ask for a test to look at behind the eyes for papilledema.

The reason I say this is because, when my shunt (the device in place that drains off the pressure inside my head) becomes blocked, I will ALWAYS wake up in the early hours of the morning in terrible pain, eyes would hurt when the sun would come up and i would also projectile vomit.
These are my specific symptoms when Ive got high pressure inside my head.
I joined just to tell you that! tehe turn

I hope its not the case but good luck!!
Posted 8/12/2011 10:35 AM (GMT 0)
I have raised intracranial pressure (hydrocephalus) and also a large fronto-temporal arachnoid cyst on the right side of my brain.

I have a shunt in situ (a device which drains the pressure away from my brain and into my heart by a thin silicon tube under the skin)
Also since Dec 09, I had a subtemporal decompression done on the right side of head only, the left side was left alone. However since having this done I get these terrible pains in my right temple, when it happens, the artery is more prominent than normal and thumps under a finger, the only way to stop the pain is to keep a finger pressed firmly onto it, well atleast it was!

Over the past month or so, the pain is more frequent (even though it happened several times a day anyway!) but ever since I went several days with a terrible headache, and then another day with this temple pain consistently, I have had frequent pain behind/on top of my left eye.

The thing that confuses me is that, my arachnoid cyst couldn't be more to the right of my head, yet all my symptoms that ive been having is affecting the left side of my head- driving me crazy!

Another thing that happens with me recently is, when getting up onto my feet from either sitting or lying, I will get up my eyes will gradually black out over a period of about 10 seconds (this had happened for as far back as i remember tbh) but after this happens its then accompanied with this overwhelming terrible pain in my head, all over as if my head is going to burst. It last about 10 seconds, but is that time the pain is unbearable, i will have to squeeze my eyes shut, grit my head and try to breathe steadily, even though breathing hurts it more!

Its no fun having a dodgy mysterious head, thats for sure! shakehead
Posted 8/13/2011 9:52 AM (GMT 0)
Hi im Udit and 20 years old.

I started experiencing pain behind my left eye for the first time since summer of 2009.It was after i wore my contacts for more time than i was actually comfortable with. The pain happened on the left back side of my head and a pulling pain/sensation behind my left eye, almost like a string connecting both the parts together. in extreme situations, even my left ear went red.This continued for 6 months. I am not exaggerating. Visited ENT specialists, neurologists, ophthalmologists etc., got MRI's done but nothing was found to be wrong.

i was pretty devastated at the perennial pain which was present and it occupied me for most of the time.However, after a grueling experience i said i had to distract myself from the pain and started exercising and doing other things but refused to let it occupy me. I started getting 1 hr windows(in a day) without pain, 3 hr windows, and 6 hr windows. eventually the pain went away.

It still visits me, although only when i get stressed out or wear contacts, which i think i am not suited to.

my current explanation to myself along with the diagnosis of various doctors is that it may be due to a combination of :
1.pulled nerves which affect both my eye and the back of my head when i get stressed.
2.and dry eyes, which may irritate the nerves.(which my contacts make worse)

i think, the best thing for people with similar problems is to get the basic investigation done, but importantly stop dwelling on it. Its very difficult, because the minds natural response is, omigod, its paining me so much, it sure deserves attention. But sometimes, its what you focus on , expands.
Posted 8/16/2011 1:05 PM (GMT 0)

carlysan said...
hi all

I have ahd pressure behind my right eye and some pressure and tingling in my right temple for about 2 weeks...very strange. Of course i am afraid that it is some sort of tumor or aneurysm or something like that. Has anyone had this before? I have been stressed out lately and i may have some allergies, is this a symptom?? any suggestions or comments are appreciated...thanks, Carlysan

Hi, Carlysan!

My primary migraine symptom is severe pain and pressure behind my right eye. I've had MRIs of my brain for an unrelated condition and eye exams (also for an unrelated condition), and there are no tumors or aneurysms or anything. My physicians have said that it's very, very common for migraine sufferers to experience pain and pressure behind the eyes. I don't have allergies, so I can't say anything about that.

I wouldn't worry about it.
Posted 8/17/2011 10:18 PM (GMT 0)
heya guys ;) my name is max im 14 and for the past year ive had this really high pressure behind my right, and sometimes left eyes... my neck is really stiff and when i like stand up after watching TV first all goes black even when i have my eyes wide open and then i kinda loose balance a bit then if hurts like **** and i just feel like i wanna put a knife thru my eye its so freaking scary and i googled "pain behind eye" and i see this with cancer and stuff please help im writing this in panic from my iPhone!!!!!! ( ive had this fobia for cancer due to the spread and if it turns out that i HAVE cancer behind my eyes that would be VERY ironic..)
Abd i pray not for me, but for my familys sake that it isnt so.
Posted 8/21/2011 1:40 AM (GMT 0)
after years on right eye pressure and face swelling, doctors in alabama diagnoses me with maxilary sinusitus, after taking prednisone and antibiotics and not gettn any better, finally on a trip home to fl i get a lump under rght eye, the llost sight in that eye ,i go to teaching hosp, the dr find tumor behind eye,they do unsucessful biopsy twice , cantget enough to properly diagnose begin or malignant. so i had 8wks of a chemo called rituxian, tumor shurnk some ,so now i`m gonna hv radiation to see if it will shrink or go away.. I`m praying for a MIRACLE, that`s all i can do now!!
Posted 9/1/2011 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
I live in Omaha, Nebraska and would like to know of a doctor in that area that could treat my wife who has many of the symptoms described here.
Posted 9/4/2011 6:53 AM (GMT 0)
Hi all!
I am 20 years old and only recently have I started getting what I consider migraines. My left eye feels like it has a ton of pressure on it and I notice that my left eye will twitch sometimes even when I don't have a headache. I know I'm about to get a headache whenever I feel a pain in my left eye. Recently the pain has lasted a number of days and still has yet to go away. During the times when i feel the pressure my eye hurts really bad and it almost goes to the back of my skull. Additionally I will feel vertigo, dizzy, and nausea. My feet sometimes even feel vibrations if that makes any sense. The area under my eye also has horrible pain when I try to massage it. Excedrin and tums don't work. My eyes have gotten really sensitive to light too I noticed. I was just wondering what it might be, reading through the thread I am worried it could be a tumor!
Please help because I can't sleep when I have these headaches!!
Posted 9/8/2011 7:25 PM (GMT 0)
hi im 29 and suffer with pressure around my right eye and bad mirgraines,,,,,but yesterday i had a really funny turn i was stood up washing dishes when my eye felt like it had popped out and my vision went all blurry so i sat down and it lasted about a minute and then it felt like my eye went back in it was so scary it was awfull has anyone else had the same exprience becos im so freaked out by it x
Posted 10/9/2011 11:34 PM (GMT 0)
Hi,

I have some symptoms that have started few days ago that has got me a bit worried. To start with I'm sure it's not stress related as I don't really have much stress in my life!! Few days ago I was looking up for a few minutes and my head started hurting like hell and I started to feel dizzy. When I looked straight up the pain was gone instantly. My symptoms today are: Bitter taste in my mouth(all day, even after eating something sweet), dizziness, and I don't know what to do with my right eye everytime I move it I have this excruciating pain behind my eye, on the right part of my temple and the right front part of my head (i'm sure there's a name for it!!). I don't really have headaches apart from this. The thing is I hate going to the doctor, I just want to know first if someone have been having similar symptoms and if they can please give me a verdict if it is something I should be worried about or not. Will appreciate some help/comments. Thanks
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