Vision Anxiety. Please help
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Hello. I'm a 25 year old male with crippling anxiety and it's tearing me apart. This has been something that has been off and on for years, and goes away randomly and seemingly only comes back when I'm stressed. in October, I had an Ocular Migraine and I thought I was going blind. after it went away from sleeping it off, I started freaking out. seeing "dark shadows" next to words, every letter and icon having a shadow or something dark behind or beside it. I found out my Natural blind spots and I've fixated on them thinking I'm losing my peripheral. I've seen 2 optometrists and 1 ophthalmologist and they had me dilated, only for them to say "nothing I can see is cause for concern" and wrote off my symptoms. I'm glad my eyes are fine, but I start to doubt the doctors every other day and I constantly think about this. some days it's better, some days it's worse. I also have a terrible habit of googling symptoms and thinking it's something dangerous. if anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it.
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AlwaysScared111 T_Mike
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i have also had vision concerns. i was in the midst of a sinus infection so i kept telling myself it was from that. I am followed by an opthamologist and i have an appt in january. I am really worried i have increased cranial pressure caused by a tumor. Normally I try to tell myself its anxiety related but this time, i dont think it is. i was told if you have a clean exam from eye dr and can pass a basic neuro exam, the likelihood of a brain tumor was very low. I also see a neuro due to the headaches bc i had them for a period last hear. My ct and mri were okay last year but now i have the vision changes. Normally i run to the dr, but this time im not because im so scared of bad news.