My first week

Hello everyone,
I’m a 17 year old male from Australia, and arguably this week has been one of my worst weeks full stop.

For the past month I’ve been having on and off headaches, but last Saturday I awoke to a serious dull pressure headache in basically all parts of my head. This lasted till Monday. Sunday night started vision problems, weird lighting strikes in my eyes rhat would last for 10 minutes. Tuesday I had difficulty swallowing, weakness on my left side, and a slightly but noticeably vision blur, and occasionally uncontrollable shaking. At this point I got my parents to drag me to emergency.

Side note, I have a history of cancer so just to be safe my doctors ordered a CT and MRI scan just to be safe, everything is normal.

Today is Friday night. My vision is still slightly blurry, frequently I see black lines and occasional flashes. Once a day since Wednesday I have difficulty swallowing. I now can barely stay awake for 12 hours without being super tired.

How do you people cope with this? I see a neurologist in a few weeks. I’m in my finial year of high school I’m a school captain, and I think if these migraines persist every career I’ve ever dreamt about going into is completely off the table, I’ve been completely debilitated the past week, textbook bed written, my work boss is currently eating me alive since I’ve missed 3 shifts and likely to miss more. It’s an understatement to say im mentally at an all time low, and it’s daunting to think that this time last week, I was completely fine and unaware of what was about to unfold.

Thanks guys, it really means a lot