Would you go to A&E for this? Bit worried.

[Beebatron]

To cut a long story short I've been suffering with intense head pressure for nearly two weeks. I wouldn't call it a headache exactly, more like a really bad feeling of pressure, it's been pretty much constant the entire time but not painful enough to stop me from sleeping. I am also getting weird sensations down my left side, tingling and the skin feels weirdly numb. This afternoon one of my eyes has turned a bit bloodshot for no apparent reason.
I've been holding off seeing the GP as I am in the process of switching but the pressure is getting really quite bad now so I don't really know what to do. I really don't want to go to A&E on a Friday to just be bumped around until Monday or to waste anyone's time in case it's something trivial, but the eye thing has freaked me out a bit.

It was the optician that picked up on mine. I’d been to the GP first, as that was the only way to get a optician appointment as it was during lockdown. The GP couldn’t see anything wrong but the optician saw something that meant I was sent to the eye clinic and neurology at the hospital. After they ruled everything else out they said it was idiopathic inter-cranial hypotension. Which a lumberpuncture fixed.

I just need to point out that while an optician may pick up on signs of raised intercranial pressure, they would never be able to tell you for certain that your intercranial pressure is not raised.

I was asking you the same question in response to your comment about the depth of my research xx

I was asking you the same question in response to your comment about the depth of my research xx

I've lost the thread on this tbh but have a nice day.