Intense pain and other symptoms in left eye

For the past few weeks I've been getting headaches near my left temple that would last for hours. I get eye strain headaches a lot and this one is different. I thought maybe I needed to rest my eyes since I'm a college student, so I took all of spring break weak to rest them. Coming back, the headaches still happen and are much worse. It's pretty much constantly there, just goes from numb to extreme pain sometimes, I was crying and couldn't sleep the other night. It's in the same spot- left temple area with one small area that hurts the worst like something is piercing. The vein or artery (I don't know which is which, but it's not the blue visible one) near this area also becomes very prominent and bulges when the headaches get bad. In addition, over the past few days I have noticed a small black dot near the center of my vision in my left eye. It moves when I move my eye. There might be other even smaller dots nearby but I can't quite tell. I thought this all might be migraines at first, but it is very specific and isn't going fully away.

Things to note:

-I've had muscle surgery separately on each eye, with my left eye being the most recent (2013).

-my grandma has glaucoma, not sure if it's related but I know thats hereditary

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