![]() ![]() One of the very frustrating things is that many of my doctors, including my Primary Care Phys like to attribute all of this to stress and anxiety. I am hoping that between my neuro-opth and neuro-oto/ENT we can get to the bottom of this. I have been keeping a very detailed one for a couple weeks now. Do you know if this is true? I am no expert, but I just remember reading that a couple times. ![]() I have heard that MRI's can be notoriously inaccurate in showing true blockages and possibly distorting other things as inflammation in the sinus cavities, and that instead, a CT scan would be more ideal for determining this. I did have swine flu late last year along with two upper respiratory episodes and occasional bouts with sinus drainage/infections a couple months before the dizziness which set in this Feb. Unfortunately, the radiologist's report was extremely brief and gave very little details except for pan sinus disease as the Dx. I think they were initially looking to rule out things like tumors or lesions perhaps because my dizziness and some other strange symptoms, but instead found horrible pan sinus disease which appears to be chronic. I wondered about that showing up on the MRI as well. Any help would be great at this point, I'm starting to lose faith that I'll ever get over this. I've seen 3 doctors so far and all they do is rush me out of the room with a short prescription of pills for the symptoms but nothing helpful as far as real tests or an idea of what could be wrong with me. I guess I was just wondering if you ever did resolve your issues with a diagnosis or something so that I can have a little more direction to go to a doctor with. Also, I have this feeling of pressure in my ears that isn't constant but it seems to come and go. It's been affecting my work a lot because I've definitely starting becoming more anxious with these symptoms not resolving. I just feel really off and it has these periods of a few seconds where it gets really bad. I finished the antibiotics after a week and though the ear pain and vertigo seemed to get better I've had this constant sense of dizziness, which is more like a sense of uneasiness or altered mind state than the vertigo. ![]() Initially starting as what seemed like a middle ear infection with vertigo, I went to an urgent care and he diagnosed me with an URI gave me some antibiotics and off I went. I know this is a few years old now and I'm not sure if you'll get this but I've been experiencing symptoms incredibly similar to what you've described in this post for the past 6 weeks or so. ![]() I was unable to reproduce the unequal pupils in the opth's office exam (of course, right?) :) Does this at all sound like something normal or should I be concerned of something like Marcus Gunn Pupil (Afferent Pupillary Defect)? Any information you can tell me would be of much help! I am on some anxiety and anti-depressant meds (Buspirone, Imipramine, and Clonazepam). Ete Dr said I was fine, and the ENT said I have hyper nervous system tendencies which are migraine in nature. I saw a neuro-opthomalogist and a neuro-otologist/ENT and radiologist. Only other thing to note is that I had sudden onset of many dark and light floaters 2 months ago. I have been Dx with a migrainal (a non-headache type) condition which has caused some dizziness (more of a detached, spacey feeling). On rare occasions, the larger pupil will return in either eye in the afternoon, but it is rare and never lasts long. Peculiarly enough, the issue seems to resolve itself within a couple hours of being awake and moving around/walking etc. It seems to dilate and and shrink when exposed to/removed from a light source, however it does not seem to constrict as efficiently as the right when I use a flashlight in a dark room. When I first wake up each morning, my left pupil is almost always slightly larger than the right (approximately 10-15% larger). Hello, I am trying to get to the bottom of an ongoing issue I am encountering each morning. ![]()
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