Yesterday morning, I bent down to get something and my vision got blurry and I got dizzy... and it kept happening everytime I looked down or bent over.

Where a typical person might just be concerned, I ****ing panicked because
1) I have MS which can cause a condition called optic neuritis which can cause severe vision problems and
2) I'm back on lithium (in a small dose), which caused me significant vision problems in the past
I also considered it may be a sinus infection because I have been feeling ****ty and I had pain behind my eyes (also a sx of optic neuritis tho).

I calmed down enough to decide that it was most important to rule out optic neuritis so if it was that I could get treatment ASAP. My eye doctor squeezed me in, and was able to rule it out. By that time, I was feeling worse, and he told me he thought I just had a really bad sinus infection.

I called my PCP and he called in antibiotics for me.

If I had just waited instead of freaking out and running out to the eye doctor, it would have become clear to me within a couple of hours that it was a sinus infection... a really, really bad one. I feel like total ****.

I really should not have driven to the eye doctor. So, no food shopping for me yesterday. It has to be done today though. I will either have to whittle my list down so my husband will go with me, or he will have to drop me off and pick me up. I also have to get the antibiotics, too.