Update on my Mom

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Ok, here’s the deal with my mom. Y’all remember the eye doctor scared her to death saying she could have a brain tumor or aneurysm, because that’s two things that can cause your eye to roll back up in your head. He said she needed to get her regular doctor to do an MRI and see what the problem was because from an eye standpoint there wasn’t anything else he could do. That’s what he told my mom and her husband. She goes to her regular doctor two days later and he doesn’t understand what’s going on. He wanted to know why the eye doc didn’t run an MRI if he wanted one. Mom said because y’all were going to run one anyway for another problem and he said just to add that part onto it. So her regular doc calls the eye doc. The eye doctor told the regular doctor that he suggested an MRI because my mom was having headaches. Mom says she told the eye doc she only had headaches when her sinus stuff first started acting up, but the headaches went away with medication. She said this was all before he brought up the tumor and stuff. That was why he said it might be sinus related. He gave her some drops for her eyes because they were dry, told her to ask for an MRI from her regular doc and sent her on her way…scared shitless! Back to the regular doc. After talking with the eye doctor, he tells my mom he’s not going to do an MRI because she doesn’t want surgery for her pinched nerve. Has nothing to do with a probable brain tumor! He asked about the headaches and she tells him the same thing she told the eye doctor. So the regular doctor just takes blood work and sends her home, saying the eye doctor didn’t find anything wrong and leaving it at that. My mom was upset and she gets things mixed up anyway, so she didn’t know what was going on. She still had no idea what was causing her eye to roll up into her head every morning. I couldn’t understand why SOMEONE wasn’t finding out what was causing her eye to do this. It’s not normal for your eye to roll back into the socket! I called the eye doctors office and they said he suggested the MRI because he didn’t see anything medically that was causing her eye to do that. That the regular doc would have to check for things in her brain, sinus, or thyroid that might be causing it. They told me there was nothing else they could do except suggest she talk to her regular doctor again about doing the test. I called the regular doctors office Thursday evening. They finally called me back this morning. After two phone calls this is what I found out: The eye doctor told the regular doctor the ONLY reason he thought an MRI was necessary was because of the headaches. He said her eye was rolling back into her head because of dry eyes. That’s why the regular doctor didn’t do an MRI. He’s going off of what the eye doctor said. It’s just nobody cared to explain it fully to my mom and her husband. The regular doctor says she needs to call the eye doctor and have all her records sent over so they can look at them because the eye doc told her one thing and them another. Have any of you ever heard of dry eyes causing this? I haven’t. My mom wants to know why both eyes aren’t doing it if this is the case. I told her I have no idea. I am trying to get her to go to another doctor but she’s just fed up with all of it. Turns out her thyroid is messed up. I had told her a few weeks ago from the symptoms she was describing that I thought she’d went hyper. Turns out I was right. Not that they are doing anything about it! The doctor’s office told her to come back in three weeks for more blood work. I really don’t like these doctors! So right now Mom’s just waiting and seeing. She said she needs a break from doctors and all the worrying. I’m just hoping it is only dry eyes and not something that will get worse. Or that maybe the thyroid stuff is causing the eye problem also. There’s our mess we’ve been dealing with in a nutshell.