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In reply to the discussion: This is the reason I am still wearing a mask. [View all]LuckyCharms
(17,472 posts)I'm still having some minor vision disturbances. Wearing my Holter monitor now, it comes off tomorrow at 230PM and then I have to mail it in. Got the carotid doppler ultrasound today as well, so the results are not in yet. Still waiting on the pre-authorization from my insurance company for the brain MRI, but I'm assuming I'll be getting that any time now.
I'm more freaked out than anything...when two docs tell you that what most likely happened was a stroke, it's pretty shocking.
I guess I'm fortunate in a way that it went to that part of my brain, because I don't have any typical stroke symptoms besides the vision problems and the brief period of vivid hallucinations. I had a piece of plaque lodged in my retina for years, a very small piece. When pics were taken of my retinas at my most recent exam, the plaque was gone. it could have dissolved, or it could have moved up to my brain. Now that I'm thinking about this while typing, whatever it was, I hope it was small, and I hope it resolves, because I'm thinking that a big piece of plaque or a blood clot to the occipital lobe could probably blind you.
I'm still working away, trying to keep my mind off it. Not much I can do about it anyway until I get some results back.
I'll remember your kind words.