Three years ago, I was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, or too much fluid in my head, after a routine optician's appointment. It was spotted through swollen optical nerves, and the next day, because they were so swollen, I ended up having a lumbar puncture that didn't go so well. I didn't walk for a little over three weeks afterwards because the doctor doing it managed to hit just about every single nerve and it took several tries. About a year after, having had months of neurology and opthalmology appointments, I was cleared.

On Tuesday, I had another optician's appointment, and wouldn't you know it, my optical nerves are swollen again, but not quite as badly as before. The optician got in touch with the eye clinic (their first point of call for things like this), who phoned me later and let me know that the file from the optician and my details had been passed onto the doctor I saw previously, and they'd be in touch with me to get me seen as soon as possible. I now haven't heard anything else from them and I am stressed beyond all reason waiting to find out if I need another lumbar puncture or any other type of treatment. I am a wreck.