Well, I had clear vision in the left eye during the past week of intense grief and sadness over losing my precious dad, and being exhausted, but this a.m., after getting better rest for 2 or 3 nights, the blurring has returned in all it's glory! I'm really sick and tired of this, and am coming to realize I may never have consistently good acuity in that lousy eye. I sometimes credit poor tear quality, but other times, when the eye feels comfortable, the blurring is still there.

I see the other Dr. for that second opinion March 21, and if I come away from that as clueless as I've been the whole time, I really don't know what to do except to seek out another Dr. who knows more about this in a larger city.
I am becoming more and more convinced there is some brain involvement here, not solely "eye". I have been sticking to the warm compresses, applying some extra heat to the year old sty to where even it is looking better, and the lids aren't too bad now. A brain thing. It keeps coming to mind. I really think there is more to this than is meeting my off and on blurred eye!

Sorry to hear about your Dad, I recently lost mine 2 years ago. I have been having blurry and double vision in both eyes have seen 3 Dr's so far and have to see 2 more this month one is an neuro-optho ... hang in there and don't give up hope. Again sorry about your loss.

Joe

Hi, Joe! It's good to meet you. I'm sure sorry to learn of your loss also. We think they will always be there for us, but the day always comes, we have to give them up. It's sure been a hit on us here. I'm so emotionally and physically drained. I think it all must have depleted my B-12 the way I feel.

Also sorry to learn your eyes are blurring. Correcting myself, really, both my eyes are very weak right now. All I've been through losing my dad may have me tired in the eyes also and affecting my vision. During the time I was not sleeping well, and the stress of his illness and passing was on me, I could see sharp, but now since I'm getting more rested, the blurring is here.

I'm glad you are seeing the neuro-optho. Sadly, we don't have them here, just plain-jane opthos. If my vision keeps swinging back and forth like this, and me with no diabetes, I'm going to start looking for a neuro-optho in a city that has one.

We will definitely hang in. Maybe the vision will stabilize one of these days.

Take care,

Tony

Tony, the fact that your vision seemed to improve this past week when you were so sad (and I'm assuming you were crying) leads me to believe that it really has a lot to do with your dryness. Logically, if your vision is poor because your eyes are dry (due to quantity), then your vision would improve if you were crying and your eyes were wet. My vision *ALWAYS* improves when I put tear drops in my eyes.

Just a theory.

Tony, nice to meet you also. I hope you're sleeping better. are you taking anythng for the anxiety or anything to help you sleep? My Dad had parkinson's it was rough to watch him slowly wither away it took years and was hard on all of us. I wish you the best and let us know how you are doing.

Joe

Morning, folks-

My vision is much clearer today, so maybe that's a sign I rested better.

I'm sleeping pretty good, Joe, thanks. I use one of these sound makers, and just got a new one the other day. I leave mine set on "rain". This one has a built in AM/FM radio and clock! Kinda neat.

I'm so sorry to learn your dad had Parkinson's. My late uncle (late mom's sister's husband) had that, and it is horrible. Everyone in my family is "late" looks like! Both my wife and me now have no parents. We have cousins but that's about it. I'm doing better, and got better so fast, I questioned if I was becoming hard-hearted. I guess not, just healing.

I'll sure check in from time to time. Thanks for checking up on me.

We'll see ya'll later (more clearly today!)

Tony

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Today I had 3 meetings, and by the last one, when I went to look up something in a book for the group, I tried 2 pairs of glasses and finally handed the book to a younger person and said, "Here, let someone with "eyes" read this."
I was so frustrated.
But actually, I'm still seeing better each day at 7+ months post-cataract surgery.
Definitely is better right after I put drops in.
If my eyes water in church, I can see very clearly, which has an interesting double meaning.

I know it's just a matter of time before one of my "bionic" dad's infinite skin cancers metastacizes. But he's been cheerfully treating them for the last 20 years, so it's hard to believe that he won't outlive me.

Good vision definitely has something to do with sleeping well. I guess when your eyes (and the rest of your body) are well rested they just function better. I know that when you sleep, you are not blinking and your eyes are supposed to just bathe in a pool of tears, so maybe that helps too.

I usually sleep very well. I don't have a sound machine, but I do have something similar. I sleep with an air purifier running in the bedroom (for my allergies.) It makes a whurring noise kinda like the hand dryers that you sometimes see in public restrooms. I can adjust how high I want it on, and the sound lulls me to sleep. I can't sleep without it. After I put it on, I fall asleep within 15 minutes every night without fail.

Just checking in briefly. I've just not felt like getting back into the groove since losing my dad, but maybe I'll do better about showing up here as time passes.

The sound machine's volume went berserk--either loud or none at all, so I took it back. I'm using the old one again.

Visually, I'm fair I guess. The left eye seems to be clear more days than not, so that's good, but the starburst that the dr. put there with his laser mistake, remains. I'll be asking the second opinion doctor about this.

My understanding is that most of the starburst stuff will become invisible to you as the brain learns to filter it out.
So far, my experience seems to back up that theory, though I still have some star rays, but significantly fewer than a few months ago.

It seems that getting a new intraocular lens is like seeing the world through the eyes of a newborn.
For instance, if I concentrate on it, I can see my nose (it's a bit large) when I look at things. If I had previously been without a nose, it would be very distracting. But my brain no longer registers that there is part of a nose in my field of vision.

But it's good you're getting a second opinion. I did that after my first cataract surgery, and it made me feel so much better that I was able to try not to see the starbursts.

What really helped me was creating an image in PhotoShop that showed the way the starbursts look at night. I have an art background, so it was very cathartic for me...and rather realistic if I do say so myself. ;) And now I can look back at that image and see the improvement in what I now see at night.

They need to fix this board! I can't get SP's post until probably, I post this. Maybe after I post, I will see it.

Worked! I can now comment.

Maybe in time, it will appear invisible to me, SP. Sure hope so. I'm just thankful I don't see it in daytime or I would be a basket case.

One thing I'm noticing, I am having more focused days than bad ones now! That says things are comin' together! I still don't know why the laser would have caused the starburst, but it must have. I'm thinking that may be a retinal upset of some kind that the dr. can't detect. Anyway, time will tell.

I too have dry eyes and recovered from blepharitis. However, my right eye blurs a lot in the recent months. Saw the eye doc last week and he said it was the nature of "dry eye disease". He no longer calls it a "syndrome" but "disease". I need to put drops in eyes every 2 hrs and it is helping the blur. Bluring comes and goes for periods of time and I have no clue what brings it on because I do use drops several times a day, maybe go too long between some times. I now set a timer and keep in pocket to be sure and use drops every 2 hrs.