I don't know if it's a result of the FMS or just becoming a senior citizen, but I have noticed that my eyesight has definitely got worse over the past two years. Don't even try to get me to read a prescription bottle (I never knew that writing could be so small). Have others had a problem with sight yet? I know there are times that my eyes seem to very dry and other times my eyes are constantly having to be wiped because they seem to be running. Can happen within hours of each other.

HAVE you ever been checked for Lupus?

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Hi Charlie, Yes is the short answer. But, mine also, change during the day. Sometimes I can read this board, other times I need my glasses. Did you ask your doc? My eye doc. is going to do more tests next week, wow I'm so lucky, Kim

Yes Charlie, my eyesight is steadily getting worse. It has been about a year and a half since last check, and I know my glasses need changing. For the past 4 or 5 years, my eyes do not focus without my glasses. I love to read and do crafts, but sometimes I can't now. If I ever get disability coming in I will be able to get it checked. I'm not sure if AGE or FM has got my eyesight, but maybe a mixture of both! Linda D

Ok, guys, news from a non-FMS person about this eyesight thing. I'm 46 and in the last 2 years, my eyesight has gone to total **it. Just got a new prescription and I still can't read the prescription bottles. Scared me when it really went downhill over the past 6 months, but the eye dr. said, "welcome to menopause..." and the "normal" changes your eyes go through as they age -- all of a sudden here, or else I just noticed it all of a sudden.

My eyesight is the one thing about me that the doctor said is getting better. I wore contacts for 5 years and because of the dryness of my eyes my vision was so bad that I was put on glasses and almost had to have bifocals. I have been wearing glasses for 6 years now and my last eye exam the doctor said I need a weaker RX. Now I have to cough up for new glasses or he said I will start to get headaches because my current specs are too strong.

This sounds weird but my mother was in the hospital in ICU for 2 weeks and almost died. She has worn glasses all of he life and couldn't see without them if she tried. After she recovered to the point were she could sit up in bed and started wearing her glasses again, they were way too strong. They tested her eyes at the hospital and said that in the 2 weeks she was in ICU her vision improved almost to being 20/20. Now she only wears glasses when she drives, but before she couldn't walk through the house without them on. I know it sounds strange but it is true, and they don't know why it happened.

That is very interesting!. well what I believe in is that when you have an attack(call it a flare up or whatever you call it) I believe that the muscles in your eyes(eye is a muscle)will stretch and your vision will get worst.
Just to let you know all. I used to ask my optomotrist what causes me to change prescriptions all of the time. and he said genetics. Heck genetics. nobody in my whole family ever wore glasses!. So it's not genetics. and I don't imagine that's happen after each attack. My number is -3 how far could I go? I don't want it to go worst. But there is not way to stop it.
My damn flare up is over, oh well, and my vision got worst. I used to mixed going with glasses and without. Now all of the time.
fibromyaglia destroys my look and the quality of my life.
But who know? perhaps I have more things on me going on right now.