My ears are swollen and hot help?

Doctors please help!!! Blind spots in vision, lack of period, hot flashes, headache, ringing in ears?

• I developed a large blind spot (it looks like a cigarette burn in my field of vision) to the right of my right eye about 2 months ago. When I went to the retinal specialist he showed me a portion of my eye that had atrophied and slight bleeding around that optic nerve. The other eye appeared normal. He said that he didn't know what caused it and that "sometimes it just happens". I'm only 31 by the way. Now my left eye has developed a similar "burnt" blind spot to the left of my vision in my left eye just tonight. I haven't had a period in over 6 months, have had severe hot flashes that last from 2-5 minutes every couple of hours, headaches behind my eyes and ringing in my ears for around 4 months. I do plan on going to the doctor tomorrow but no one at the doctors takes into account all of my symptoms when I do, they just look at my eyes, tell me that they've atrophied and send me home. The only explanation that I've been able to find online is a pituitary tumor. Could you please give me your opinions on what it may be and how to get my doctors to do something before I loose any more vision. These vision changes are permanent and I'm way too young to be loosing this much vision forever. I need someone to figure out what's happening before I can't see anything!!! Thank you... You may be saving my life. I'm very scared. I was planning on going back to college in the fall to become a Nurse Practitioner and this could stop that.

• Answer:

  I looked up your symptoms to try and help find a cause and the closest I found was a pituitary tumor, just like you. The second closest I found was perimenopause, which can actually affect women as young as 31. When you go to the doctor, demand that they take into account ALL of your symptoms, not just your vision changes. You can even threaten them with a lawsuit if they don't, this typically gets them moving real fast. It's not okay for them to ignore what's going on with you, especially because you're so young and having permanent partial blindness is f$ckin scary as hell and shouldn't be written off as easily as "it just happens sometimes". Get on them about all of this, it's their job, demand an MRI or CAT scan to check for a tumor, let them know that you've done research and it sounds like it could be a pituitary tumor. Make sure they understand you're very scared and you need to be checked for a tumor, putting a lot of pressure on them helps immensely.