Scared about blindness/brain tumor

Hi everyone,

I've ready written a couple of forums about this. A week ago I started seeing black dots in the sky, this progressed to white ones that move around like flies and progresses to seeing them inside. I was already getting more headaches than usual at the time. When I first seen the black dots since I have anxiety (health anxiety I believe) I thought oh my god I'm going blind. I see them a lot in the dark as well, in fact that's when their the most visible and they look like static that's a symptom that came along after. I had sharp shooting pains in one of my eyes for like a day and it would burn if deodorant was sprayed in the room then it stopped although that eye is usualy sensitive anyway espessialy in the opposite side to the corner. (Don't know the name for that lol) I'm also getting after images now. Not quite double vision since it's not constant it's more like looking at words on a screen and if I look away quickly I can see a faded image of it the next place I look. I've been getting these headaches as well. I never usually get headaches and I had a bad one some time before seeing the black dots. The headaches are getting worse every day and have now reached a point where they are constant and I can't get rid of it with strong painkillers. It seems to be just above my eyes and almost feels like I've been squinting all day like there's pressure there. I've had to download a night app on my phone to dim it and dim the computer screen at college because bright lights make it worse. I seem to have developed a sensitivity to bright lights and my headache gets worse if I look up. I'm wearing my long distance glasses all the time in hope they'll help. Usualy I don't wear them all the time. I have an emergency appointment at specsavers on Thursday and I'm afraid of several things. I'm worried things will get worse in the meantime. I heard about these people on the internet who went to bed with a headache and woke up completely blind. It's made me scared to go to sleep but I get tired so fall asleep anyway. Also I'm worried about a brain tumor because my symptoms sound simular when I looked it up. Espessialy since I got dizzy before but my dizziness is worse now. I feel sudden dropping sensations and feel like I could lose my balance and get random head rush. Yesterday I felt a rushing in my head while sitting down. I've never gotten that before. For some reason I feel the most scared when I first wake up that's when my fear seems to peak. I'm also afraid of what specsavers will say. I keep picturing them giving me bad news. Like unfortunately you have (insert condition here) and we can't cure it. I don't think anyone can really give me advice but I'm posting this on here because it makes me feel better to share my thoughts and I'm posting this on the anxiety forum because I have anxiety and this situation is making my anxiety so much worse. Thanks for reading my long ramble.

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