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Old 07-17-2015, 07:53 PM
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Default Odd new visual symptom with eyes crossing midline

The past week or so I've been experiencing a bizarre new symptom that seems to occur when I move my eyes across my midline (although sometimes it happens spontaneously without moving my eyes). It seems whenever I do this I get this sort of "shock" sensation that manifests in my head, around the eyes, sometimes down my hands and around my heart/upper left chest. It doesn't last very long, but it happens fairly frequently, and seems to get worse as the day progresses.

Anyone else experience anything like this, or have an inkling to what it means? I'm not really anxious about it, it's just strange, and I don't understand why it's surfaced. I can't pinpoint some activity that caused it. My best guess is that I did start seeing a new practitioner within the past couple weeks who has done some neck work to try to loosen up my exceptionally tight neck muscles (both in the front and back). He says neck muscle tightness and eye muscle dysfunction can be related (something other people have told me, even my neurologist). He wasn't particularly tough, just trying to get some kind of biofeedback loop to relax the muscles.
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26 year-old PhD student in evolutionary biology, slipped on ice in Feb 2014 while clipping my fingernails and walking to save time (dumbest reason for PCS ever?). Initially just had headaches and didn't feel quite right, but a minor head bump 5 days later started a downward spiral of anxiety, depression, insomnia and fatigue. Had trouble concentrating on reading/looking at screens

April 2014 - did exertion test, passed, started exercising and doing more, but didn't feel much better.

May 2014 - Went on backpacking trip OK'd by doctor, trip itself went fine, but felt worse a few days after getting back, more difficulty concentrating, worse headaches.

June 2014 - Bumped head on ceiling walking slowly down stairs, no immediate symptoms, but caused worsening headahces, more difficulty concentrating and looking at screens. Have not felt as good as I did before this since this bump.

December 2014 - after feeling relatively better I went xc skiing and fell but didn't hit my head (something my psychologist who specializes in brain injuries told me he hoped would happen so I saw it was OK), felt worse

Feb 2015 - back in grad school, light teaching load and some research, nowhere close to operating at my full capacity. Still have constant headaches, difficulty reading/looking at screens, mild anxiety and depression, and just not feeling like my normal sharp self.

Trying, but struggling, to believe that I'll get back to my old self, or at least get close.
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