In wondered why everything suddenluy looks like I'm behind a cracked window/ inside a kaleidoscope?

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Just that really,l was just looked out of the window and all of a sudden there are bright zigzags in front of both wheels.

Called my eye doctor who wanted me to come straight in but ca't as it's a 4 hours round trip and nobody to drive me

Anyone had this??? It's really unnerving!!!

I get those, aural migraines. They frightened me to death when I had the first one. But I'm used to them now, mine last about 25-30 minutes then disappear. Neither my doctor or optician are worried, they are quite common.

Trust me, this is horrible. If I could get to the bloody place now I would! And as I said before, by eye doctor I meant optometrist. Who I see for my contacts etc. I've had no previous issues.

@Howgreenwasmyvalley yes I comepletly freaked out at first! It seems me to be lessening now thank God! I'll still definitely go in tomorrow though.

My first thought was a detached retina.
But the whooshing sound changes things. Intracranial hypertension?
you need to rule this out and you really shouldn't sit on this. Go get it checked out tonight.

@Howgreenwasmyvalley do they know what triggers them?

I understand that it’s happening at a bad time and there are difficulties in getting there but you’ve had medical advice and that advice was to go straight in. Hopefully it is just a migraine but worst case scenario it could be retinal detachment, as others have said if you don’t treat it quickly it can lead to blindness.

Is there no one who can drive you? A neighbour or someone?

Sorry! You can't get there. I do apologise. I hadn't read about your distance from the GP. Anyway, good luck tomorrow. I hope it's just a migraine and nothing more.

@TheVanguardSix the whoosing is easing off too. I really can't get to a doctor tonight unless I blue light myself there which I really think is overkill.

I'm in the states not the UK.

Nobody to drive me, I live on an island unfortunately. Great at times, not great at others

If you had any other emergency how would you dsek medical care ? Wait until the next day if your leg was hanging off ?

See a doctor, ffs

Then go to the hospital. Call 911 and go to hospital. As someone who came close to retinal detachment I cannot urge you enough to take it seriously.

You live on your own island ?

Honestly sometimes the worst thing about this website is when people come swooping in to provide inappropriate advice/assurances about medical problems when they clearly don’t know what they are talking about.

I wish. If it were dire you'd be helicoptered to hospital.

I've been on Mumsnet for yonks and have done my fair amount of yelling at ops who won't go to A&E but short of being lifeflighted there's no way of me getting there right now.

I posted a few years ago about having a burst ovarian cyst and just having to wait it out because no bastard would drive me to the hospital. (Mil I'm looking at you .)

I usually love living here but in situations like this it does seem ridiculous

I think it’s just hard to imagine unless you live rurally. Definitely speaking for myself here as I’m in a city and there are multiple hospitals within about half an hour!

Did you discuss this with your eye doctor and were they happy to wait until tomorrow?

Why are you shouting about not being able to get there? What exactly do you think anyone here can do other than advise you take the advice of the doctor you spoke to?

@TheGreyInThisCity I lived in London most my life and wish I'd appreciated it!!

The eye doctor is pretty unhappy but understands.

I've got a mother of all headaches coming on so feel like it may be a migraine starting so I'll sign off for now, looking at a screen was probably quite stupid!

Thanks for everyone who posted.

@smashstore because a few people just kept telling me to get to a doctor. Which I'd said I my original post that I couldn't!

You live on your own island ?

She didn't say she lives on her own island, some very unsympathic posts on this thread

OP, have you got a plan B if you still can't drive in the morning? If anything changes for the worst, be aware of the potential risks and get them to heli you to hospital.

Are you a Mainer? (You don't have to answer that. Just the image I have when you describe being on an island 2 hours from medical help!)

When this happened to me it was a detached retina.

Definitely this. It doesn't mean you have but anything like this get it checked immediately. I didn't when I was about 23, thought nothing of it and my retina detached. As the PP said, the sooner its checked the better.

I get these all the time sometimes with headache straight away but sometimes on their own. It’s like a kaleidoscope. My doctor told me a good trick which might help you with your headache while you wait. Hands in ice cold water. Feet in basin of warm water. It disrupts your pain sensors in the brain (apparently).

When you do get to hospital or doc's, make sure they check your blood pressure that sea's ear wooshing is likely to be that!..

Hope you feel better OP and fingers crossed it’s “just” a migraine!