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Hi folks,

Long story short, I've been diagnosed with an unruptured aneurysm near my right eye.

Recently, during a work meeting, I felt a lot of pressure in my head and it looked like someone had poured watered-down red-brown paint over both my eyes. When the red-brown color cleared, my right eye was completely covered in what appeared to be an eclipse - I could see some light around the outside, but everything towards the middle of my field of vision was completely black. I chalked it up to a migraine with a really bad aura, waited for the "eclipse" to clear, and then drove home expecting a migraine, which never came. My doctor sent me to an ophthalmologist, who found nothing wrong with my vision, and then sent me on for an open-air MRI and referred me to a neurologist who claims that this is all migraine-related. After this incident, I began getting cold pins-and-needles feelings on my face, my tongue and ears randomly go numb, I have a constant headache/pressure right above my eye, I have vertigo and see weird visual disturbances. The headache/pressure in the front of my head persists during, and exists separately from, my migraines (I've had occasional migraines with aura since a car wreck in 2009, but never any of these other symptoms).

My neurologist is exactly zero help. After pestering him long enough, he agreed to a closed-MRI (the open-air had indicated an abnormality, my neuro thought it was "nothing"), which showed the aneurysm...so I was scheduled for an angiogram. The neurosurgeon I saw after my angiogram doesn't feel he can personally do the surgery necessary to coil or clip the aneurysm, but believes I might have better luck at a more specialized hospital, so that's where we're heading. In the meantime, I'm just scared and anxious! Just finding this site and knowing there are others out there who are dealing with similar conditions is helpful!