Spots/ light sensitivity! - Anxiety Message Board

Sweetpea33771 · 02-28-2006, 12:25 PM

Hi all...

I've been having an ongoing battle with mono the last 2 months... and I am now just finding out alot of my pain may have not been the mono but my anxiety. The past few weeks I've had extreme sensitivity to light and now I am seeing spots. Sometimes I'll see black spots, and other times I see white sparkles. The color/shape varies. I also developed eye floaters, which have increased in size. Since I was told I had mono, I've been to 3 docs., 2 eye docs. (1 being a specialist), and the ER. It also looks like things having lots of little moving dots, but I'm almost positive my vision has been like that since I got sick, also... I had light sensitivity since day 1. But now it seems to be worse and I get after images off spiral bound note books and little stuff like that. Tomorrow I am going to counseling for my anxiety... i was just wandering if anyone has ever had any anxiety symptoms like this. (even from just re-reading what i wrote, I look up at the wall and see lines)
If they are anxiety symptoms its just making my anxiety worse because now I'm thinking i have a brain tumor!!
Thanks for any response. Take care.

Joanna21 · 02-28-2006, 12:31 PM

Hi! Curious, I have been questioning myself about that too. In the past 2 days I have had a lot of light sensivity which is strange. I have been spending a lot of hours in the computer but I always do. Maybe this is a symptom of anxiety or something. I'm going to do some research.
I'm glad I'm not the only one having this.
Take care,
Joanna

kw123 · 02-28-2006, 12:45 PM

I had light sesitivity also. I think mine came from starting Buspar. Went off that and the sensitivity went away. On new meds?

hry33 · 02-28-2006, 12:58 PM

anxiety sufferers are often oversensitive to light, I was and needed sunglasses often
floaters in vision are sometimes normal
anxiety as a cause is often diagnosed by eliminating everything else

severe anxiety can cause blurred or fading vision or tunnel vision

Sweetpea33771 · 02-28-2006, 01:12 PM

No, I'm not taking any medicine... Thanks for the replys, I hope we can get some more.