My left eye has always been the weaker of the two, but it seems as though it's gotten worse over the past couple of years. This month I switched from contacts to glasses and that's helped a lot, but there's still something wrong I think. I can easily perceive differences in color and brightness when quickly closing and opening my eyes in succession with everything seeming a bit dimmer and more washed out from my left eye. I also seem to have more trouble focusing my left eye, a situation that becomes maddeningly apparent when I read for extended periods of time. I've been to two eye doctors over the past two years and neither one found anything out of the ordinary.
This sucks and all, but I figured it wasn't the end of the world. Now I'm noticing other things... I was holding my right eye closed a while ago to contemplate the impairment of the left when I became aware of the fact that everything through that eye seemed to be blinking very rapidly. I mean VERY rapidly on and off, from vision to blackness at a speed that's on the order of a cheap CRT monitor. Then over the course of about a minute the vision through that eye just went out and all I could see was the room light coming through the eyelid of my right eye. For a moment it was like my left eye wasn't there at all. This seriously freaked me out and I blinked, which somehow caused the vision to return to my eye. I waited a while longer and soon I couldn't see from that eye again. Strangely enough, passing my hand through where my field of vision should have been also seemed to "restart" my eye. Needless to say, this worries me.
Is this normal? Am I going blind in my left eye?
This sucks and all, but I figured it wasn't the end of the world. Now I'm noticing other things... I was holding my right eye closed a while ago to contemplate the impairment of the left when I became aware of the fact that everything through that eye seemed to be blinking very rapidly. I mean VERY rapidly on and off, from vision to blackness at a speed that's on the order of a cheap CRT monitor. Then over the course of about a minute the vision through that eye just went out and all I could see was the room light coming through the eyelid of my right eye. For a moment it was like my left eye wasn't there at all. This seriously freaked me out and I blinked, which somehow caused the vision to return to my eye. I waited a while longer and soon I couldn't see from that eye again. Strangely enough, passing my hand through where my field of vision should have been also seemed to "restart" my eye. Needless to say, this worries me.
Is this normal? Am I going blind in my left eye?
Actually that didn't even occur to me. Mods feel free to move.
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