[please excuse the typos that might occur…'cos I can’t see to correct them at the moment]
I have been a long-term frequenter of ophthalmologists for various eye-conditons. But I have been OK for the last couple of years (except for some permanent damage to my left eye from uveitis).
Until today. My family decided to arrange a ‘get together’…something that has not occured for many years. It was only the immediate family, so nothing to worry about,right? Except I was a bit nervous beforehand, but nothing too extreme. Just a bit of anxiety that was quickly allayed by a glass of red in the restaurant.
But LEAVING the restaurant, the sun appeared to be extremely bright. And things looked a bit blurred…OK says me, one too MANY glasses of red were consumed today, and that might account for your lack of vision.
So I walked with my sister up to Brunswick Street to buy some good coffee, and we chatted and mused about life etc, and STILL my eyes were screwed. And now I’m home, and I still can’t see properly. My left is it’s usual bad-self, but my right is blurred to the buggery. I feel like I’ve just had dilating drops inserted by the eye-doc with the resultant blindness.
Urghhhhh. If it doesn’t pass in the nest couple of hours, I’ll call my eye=quack, but it is indeed a pain in the arse in between.
Sorry it’s late over here and I’m on my way to bed.
For me, if I couldn’t see, just about the last thing on my mind would be typing up a Pit Thread.
I wouldn’t be sure if I could read the replies.
IT’S YOUR FUCKIN’ SIGHT! It’s not some wuss-ass sense like smell or proprioception (although proprioceptive loss is a pretty big bitch), it’s the sense that is responsible for around 80% of our sensation!
I’m no doctor but chronic uveitis IIRC can lead to acute closed- and open-angle glaucoma. Sudden onset blurriness can indicate many things, including the perennial favorites like temporal arteritis, stroke, retinal detachment, and central retinal vein/artery obstruction. None of which are things deserving dally. I’m not a doctor
Get your ass to an emergency room. In case you can’t read that:
GET YOUR ASS TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM!
kambuckta, for star’s sakes, woman … I hope you’re okay, and you’ve taken yourself at speed to a doctor or the equivalent. I agree with what others have said – get your eyes sorted first, then post a damn good rant!
I hope you’ll be ok, kambuckta I couldn’t imagine losing my sight. I’ll send positive vibes your way and hope it was just due to being very tired. Let us know how the ER visit went. (You did take the other’s excellent advice, and go, right? Stern mom type look)
Um…(no I didn’t go to the ER), but I got to bed early and had a good nights sleep, and I’m fine now (phew!). Because it was just blurriness (not accompanied by pain or any other symptoms thus not suggesting something too serious…and nor was it getting worse over the evening) I figured I’d err on the side of ignorance and ‘wait and see’. But I WILL ring my specialist tomorrow for a check-up, just to see if there is any new inflammation there.
Thanks everybody for the good wishes and even though I didn’t take your advice, I do appreciate it. If someone else had written my post, I would have suggested they get to a doctor too…it’s strange how that works!
Photosensitivity/extreme intolerance to sunlight or even just light, is a very, very common symptom of conjunctivitis or a viral eye infection. Both need treatment, but in the vast majority of cases are relatively quick and easy to cure and leave no lasting damage. I don’t know if the blurring could be connected with this, IANAOptician.
But certainly go and see you specialist, even if all seems fine now.
[hijack]I woke up once with no vision on the right hand side. It was not that my right eye wasn’t working - I think my left-brain-hemisphere wasn’t working! I thought this because when I closed my left eye, my right eye could only see the left-half of the view. When I closed my right eye my left eye could only see the left-half of the view.
This lasted for about an hour. I was seriously confused. Can Anyone explain this?
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Another, more recent eye problem - I was at work and serously tired. I started to lose the middle of my vision it was actually kind of cool, It was not ‘blackness’ it was more a case of no ability to see the middle. this was getting worse by the minute. It got to the point where I was worried so I told my colleague. He didn’t seem at all surprised. He said “don’t worry. It’s probably a migrane”
Lobsang, both of the incidents you report sound very, very much like the onset of a migraine headache. Just be glad you got just the visual distortion part of it, and not the full-blown, skull-cracking headache part. Any easy way to reduce the stress level in your life? You might want to chat with a doctor about getting something to head off the problem.
I can’t explain it, Lobsang, but I had something similar happen once. I was sitting in a class and suddenly started feeling … weird. Not sick, just weird. Then the upper left quadrant of my vision went out. It was like a fuzzy black area in the upper left part of my vision in both eyes. It lasted about an hour also, and I felt kinda shaky and ill for a while, but that went away too.
That was about 16 years ago, no recurrences. I asked a doctor about it once. He told me they could run all kinds of tests but probably wouldn’t find anything. So I just filed it under “Weird things that have happened to my body” in my mental cabinet.
kambuckta, when my eyes get really tired, sometimes I have a LOT of trouble focussing them. Too much time spent on the computer using the wrong glasses can do this to me, or reading for too long at one sitting.
