I am a trained and certified PSW (personal support worker), honor role and at top of class. I found this site buy looking up my specific symptoms and voila many people in the have eerily similar symptoms. This is an interesting site that i seem to have stumbled upon with some great information and dialogue. What should I do? Just watch and see what happens? If it were something as serious as a stroke or brain bleed, wouldn't I know by now? Thanks for any help. But it's never done this before and it wore off hours ago. Also-the research said sometimes higher doses of antihistamine could cause one dilated pupil, and I did take two doses of Benedryl to sleep that night. But the pupil is lasting a long time, since it was diagnosed this morning so I am wondering. I am leery about spending a lot of money on a Neurologist and MRI without health insurance (2 to 3 grand maybe?) if it's not really necessary. to ask his opinion about the pupil, and whether I should check it out with a Neurologist but he never called me back yesterday. My father currently has a bad head cold, and I figured I was catching it as some sort of URI or sinus thing. I can't tell how much of this is stress/sleep deprivation and/or side effects from the Lunesta, which can cause similar symptoms. I am very dizzy, and eyes are extremely light sensitive all of a sudden. I am also having a really bad headache, but feels more like sinus but it's painful. Should I be worried about the dilated pupil? It's still there. I later found out a great deal of the physical anxiety/confusion I have been experiencing is likely due to side effects from the Lunesta, as a lot of people have the same problems and it was noticeable compared to normal. I tried a Lunesta the night before, and it only gave me 3 hours of sleep before causing so much anxiousness I couldn't sleep the rest of the night. I am guessing it's probably more due to stress and sleep deprivation. My mind was very confused and perceptions distorted, as in physical anxiety being acute. yesterday, and a great deal of confusion and trouble processing information. But I noticed I was having a lot more physical anxiety than usual the night before and day of this appt. But, some research did say it could be due to stress and sleep deprivation, both of which I had a great deal the last few days due to anxiety about this appointment. Almost every case with my symptoms seems to indicate a ruptured Aneuryism or stroke. So naturally this scared me and I did research online. He rather offhandedly suggested I might want to tell my Dr.

He did tell me that if it was sudden onset, it could be something dangerous like a brain bleed or a stroke. (This was a University affiliated Medical Center, a teaching hospital). But he was interested enough to make his two residents look at my pupils. I asked what it meant, and he was rather dismissive and didn't seem to take it too seriously. I have never noticed that to happen ever before in my life.

He asked if anyone had told me that-and they haven't. examining me noticed that my left pupil was dilated about twice the size of the right one. I went to a Sleep Center yesterday for a sleep disorder, and the Dr.

One pupil dilated suddenly