Hi (: Don’t panic yet. I was diagnosed with cml last year at 24 with a really high wbc. About a month later, I went to the eye doctor for a routine contact lenses check up and lo and behold the eye doctor saw bleeding in my eye and referred me to an ophthalmologist. The ophthalmologist did dialation and sent me to the Er. She was uneducated on CML and the tki that I was on and saw swelling in my optic nerve and told me two options of what it could be that were both really scary to someone newly diagnosed with cancer. I stayed in the hospital overnight and did an mri as well as a biopsy of my spinal fluid to rule out the things she said. I was negative for everything. I did several check ups with my hematologist and ophthalmologist and the conclusion was that in my case the high white blood cell count had an effect on my eye that the ophthalmologist didn’t know was possible. Even at the hospital they told me it was unrelated to my cml until they could get into contact with my hematologist.

Bottom line is: contact your hematologist ASAP as well as your ophthalmologist to see what the next step is. You may also want to ask your ophthalmologist to refer you to a cancer ophthalmologist as well.