I've Just About Had It!! - Eye & Vision Message Board

Anxiety Man · 03-08-2006, 08:48 AM

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!

JoeD617 · 03-08-2006, 03:16 PM

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

Anxiety Man · 03-08-2006, 03:46 PM

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

purple2067 · 03-08-2006, 04:54 PM

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.

JoeD617 · 03-09-2006, 02:14 AM

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