Brief Answer:
No worries, proper review, exclude temporal arteritis, migraine, BP control

Detailed Answer:
Hi and thanks for the query,

I understand this could be very disturbing. However, there are few things that would be interesting to know. Do you have high blood pressure? Do you feel as vomiting when you experience this headache? Do you feel some malaise lately? Do you feel any pressure when you press on the affected side? Do you have any past history of eye disease? Are you being treated for any eye diseases?

High blood can usually cause some transient signs and symptoms like what you describe. In case you have regular normal blood pressure readings, there are two main conditions that should be carefully checked.

The first if called temporal arteritis. This involves an inflammation of specific nerves and left untreated at times, if severe inflammation of the nerves that supply the eye and the eye camera (the retina), this could lead to blindness. This is a condition simple to diagnose with a simple clinical review and a blood test called the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. When raised, it is diagnostic. Treatment is very simple with a steroid called Predinosolone. The likelihood that this could be temporal arteritis ties with the fact that you are female, your age and the nature of the pain and visual symptoms. I suggest a formal exclusion of this option. In case you have some malaise lately, or feel as if you git some fever, this would further strengthen the possibility it could be this.

The second condition is migraine. There are specific types of migraine that present themselves with some visual symptoms.

However, I do not think you need to be too worried. However, making a proper diagnosis would help avoid any late complications.

I strongly suggest you get a consultation with your doctor for a proper clinical review and management.

Thanks and kind regards as I wish you the best of health.

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