Alright, so I'm 19, female, and up until August I've always had reasonably good health. In August of '07 I experienced rapid vision loss in my left eye and I lost my night vision. I went into the doctor and she told me that my prescription had changed a little bit but not enough for a new pair of glasses and she just ignored the loss of night vision and I was sent on my way. My left eye's vision improved considerably a few weeks later and I haven't had a problem with it since.
In January, however, I started getting terrible pressure behind my left eye. It was so bad that I couldn't eat, I wasn't able to move my eyes,etc etc. I'd get a terrible headache in my left occipital lobe after the pressure in my eye would start up. While I've had migraine's as long as I can remember, these headaches I've been having lately are so much different from the ones I'm used to. They never seem to go away.
Anyways, a friend convinced me to go back to the eye doctor, and I went, onlt this time I saw a different one than the one in August and he recommended that I see a neurologist.
I was able to finally get in March 5th and Dr. Johnson suggested I get an MRI. Here it is, though, the 14th already and I cannot seem to get them to set a date for the MRI. When I called them yesterday they said that Radiology had sent Dr. Johnson's request for my MRI back to his office because it was "wrong" I have no idea what that means and when I called today they said that they still didn't have an order for one. Is this normal? Do they usually wait this long and drag their feet when scheduling something that, I believe, is quite important?
I'm getting worried mostly because my "symptoms" seem to be getting a little worse each day. Every morning I get up with a terrible headache, my memory is shot: some days I can't remember where I am or how I got to a certain place. The pressure comes and goes, sometimes my hands and arms are all tingly and I can't pick up a pencil or pen to write anything because of how weak my hand is. Am I just imagining these things or is there something actually wrong with me? Every doctor I've seen keeps telling me that its only optic neuritis, but I've checked it out and I really don't think that's "all it is"
Any suggestions on what I can do about the MRI situation to speed it up? Has anyone had similar symptoms and it turned out to be nothing? Thank you much