Sensation of pressure, pressure, pain behind the eyes

Sensation of pressure, pressure, pain behind the eyes

Are you familiar with this symptom?

The feeling of pain or pressure in the area behind the eyes is quite possible to be caused by a completely different area of the head. Eye diseases do present with pain and vision problems, but rarely cause a feeling of pressure.

Patients describe the pain as sharp, burning, burning, and the feeling of pressure leaves a feeling of fullness and tension in the eye.

Causes of feeling of pressure behind the eyes are:

  • Migraine and other types of headache;
  • Sinus infection;
  • Graves' disease;
  • Optic neuritis;
  • Trauma to the face.

Be sure to contact your doctor if you experience such serious symptoms as:

  • High fever;
  • Loss of sight;
  • Acute headache;
  • Lose the ability to move in any part of the body or complain of numbness.

 

Source:  

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320936#causes