What's going on with my eyes?!

[CZroe]

This has happened before and it's sort of like hiccups. All I can do is wait it out but it's gone on for more than three hours before. Each time it has happened, I was using my laptop but it may not be related.

Basically, in an instant, I go from being able to see and use my laptop fine to hardly being able to read anything. It's like the words are there but gaps seem to appear as I'm trying to read them. No obvious blind-spots. Or anything. I can't read the letters on the keyboard and I can't read the letters on the screen. Watching TV seems OK except I can still tell it's happening (Just not interfering much).

I am "legally blind" in my left eye (Lazy eye), color blind (Green/Red) and it happens with and without my corrective lenses. It continues for a while, but mostly causes a problem when readin (I drove home just fine, though it was a little hard to concentrate on meters and such).

I think it's a mental thing. Has anyone else experienced this or know what it's called? Is it just my problem? 🙁

No insurance and no money for a doctor. Like the hiccups, all traces would be gone by the time I could get to an appropriate doctor anyway.

I cannot proofread this post in under 10 minutes, so please excuse any errors.

 

[apac]

Dyslexia (possibly). No joke, my friend has it.

I should mention, theres not much you can do about it. The only thing I know of is mental therapy of sorts.

 

[rh71]

"gaps appear as you try to read them". I get this when I begin to have migraines... it's the white "aura"... I can't see what I'm directly looking at, but my peripheral vision (though then limited) can catch the words. This lasts for up to a half hour for me.

I'm not saying this is your problem... just a shot in the dark in case this happens to you... and is followed by a headache/migraine.

 

[CZroe]

apac:
I know what you mean (My friend does too 😉) but that condition doesn't go away and come back 😉 This actually effects my vision somehow although I still think it's mental or nervous system related (Perhaps my eyes have bad nerves... Ugh. I'll never sound like a doctor with phrases like that. 😉).

rh71:
That sounds like it. I can certainly "see" that the words are there but when I try to read them it's like the individual word I am focusing on is gone / unreadable while and can see words elsewhere in the sentance. It's gone now 🙂

Anyway, I've only had a headache so bad that I'd describe it as a migrane once before. I do seem to feel a stress or possible mild headache that I attribute to frustration with the problem and trying to read. Because I don't generally get migranes, this "stress" may not be a migrane trigger for me.

 

[rh71]

The aura symptom of migraines is very common. At first I thought it was a sign of potential long-term visual problems also... but I realized it was followed by nausea and a migraine (bed-ridden-type pain) each time. I read up on this and many people are in the same boat.

There are many causes for migraines - symptoms help to tell you beforehand to pop a pill like Zomig or Imitrex... causes can be exposure to loud music, bright lights, MSG in foods (my trigger - most chinese foods), stress, female menstruation period, chocolate, red wine, and cheese.

Hope that helps you determine whether what you have is really a migraine and that this eyesight thing is simply a symptom. Good thing is, it's temporary and apparently has no long-term effects against your vision.

BTW, how old are you ? You'll realize that as you get older (mid-20s even)... your body reacts differently. I didn't have any problems with MSG throughout my childhood and all of a sudden... the last 3 years... have pretty much sucked in terms of watching what I eat.

 

[MithShrike]

Had the aura today. Bad sh!t. Luckily a Vicodin and a nice long nap took that out quickly enough. I get the same problem as CZ roe sometimes without a migraine but it's rare.

 

[StormRider]

Can you read the words that are coming out of my mouth?