Should I trust my eye doctor, or go to the ER?!

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The ER is not well equipped to answer questions like what you have. If you don't trust results from your last eye doctor, see another one.

optometrist

I would go to the ER.
When they dilate your eyes it allows the doctor to see the back on your eye.
It allows them to make sure that the retina and nerve are healthy.
& she might of not seen what was wrong if I was you I would go to the ER and see if they can see whats wrong.
Good luck(:

you should go to the emergency room just to make sure everything is fine. It's better to know now before it gets worse and they could help you obviously clear what you're feeling in your eyes. If you really cant deal with it definitely go some time soon good luck :)

Go to the ER, ur doctor is obviously incompetent
;)
Best of Luck

for the record...TODAY...this MORNING I correctly diagnosed a neurological problem that the patient's PCP *and* ophthalmologist both "missed". so it certainly goes both ways, Blank.

ophthalmologist =/= God.

I wouldn't put too much stock in the whole OD vs MD who-is-a-real-doctor argument.

back to the OP: VERY FEW eye problems happen in BOTH EYES at the SAME TIME. if you have floaters...IN BOTH EYES AT THE SAME TIME...I can already tell you that's not a retinal detachment or any retinal problem. "floaters when you look at light"...that sounds like Scheerer's phenomenon to me.

also...very few true eye emergencies GO AWAY or come & go.

"pressure"...IN BOTH EYES AT THE SAME TIME is probably sinus pressure. in 10 years I have had exactly TWO patients with pressure high enough for them to "feel" it...and almost every emergent intraocular pressure problem is uniocular...so we're back the the "both eyes vs 1 eye" argument". nobody has emergent high pressure, high enough for them to "feel" it...IN BOTH EYES AT THE SAME TIME. that would be shockingly rare.

and...both eyes were dilated and the doc didn't find anything in either eye despite purposely looking for something. I mean sure some posters here will dog the "idiot" optometrist but really, what are the odds that you have problems in BOTH eyes and the OD missed...THEM BOTH? come on. errr thats statistically improbable.

sure, go to the ER. or find another doc. but it sounds to me like your eye doc probably did a bang up job. the likelihood that she "missed" something "serious" is...errrrr...very low.

"I'm not even sure if she can be labeled as a "doctor. She mainly just did an eye exam and dilated my eyes and looked at them"

well in the US you must be a doctor to perform those tests, so contrary to what the AMA and Blank would like for you to think...yes, she was a "doctor"

optometrist
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You need to have an emergency visit to an ophthalmologist in your area. My husband had pain in his eye and went to the lense company where he gets his glasses and was seen by an eye doctor... who misdiagnosed him and almost cost him his sight. The reason was because there are 3 types of eye doctors and only an ophthalmologist is the specialist and surgeon that can do a complete exam for serious problems. We almost had to learn the hard way! Find the top ophthalmologist in your city by searching www.YourCity.MD and see the reference sites I researched and quoted for you to read, asap.

http://cincinnati.md/cincinnati-oh/relief-center/eye%20pressure%20floaters
http://cincinnati.md/BLOGS/category/Eye-on-Health.aspx