Sixty pints and six months of pain

WHEN a 37-year-old man walked into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow, Scotland, last October complaining of “wavy” vision and a non-stop headache that had lasted four weeks, doctors were at first stumped, the British journal The Lancet reported yesterday.

The unnamed patient “had no history of head injury or loss of consciousness and he was taking no medications,” Dr Zia Carrim and two other physicians from Southern General Hospital said.

Body temperature and blood pressure were both normal and a neurological exam scanned negative. But when an eye specialist was called in, the fog began to clear.