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Vision issue...help?
1ddqd
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I'm having a really wierd problem that just really started happening. I work in a corporate environment where I sit in front of a monitor all day. I was walking back from another area and I think I may have looked outside. All of a sudden, it was like I looked into the sun or saw a bright reflection off a car window. Now my right eye has some weird flickering lines through it. Usually, catching bits of the sun in reflections or even accidentally glancing at it doesn't affect me this long - wtf could have happened?
[note] I didn't ACTUALLY look at the sun OR get a reflection off of something...
[note] I didn't ACTUALLY look at the sun OR get a reflection off of something...
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Yes, that means you need to get to a fucking doctor, like, now.
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Apparently Slider can heal his retinas just by resting his eyes. That's some superpower there.
I get them from time to time have had one last as long as 15 minutes.
I've also had this happen when I get migranes, but it's slightly different.
Also, never had a migraine, nor really any severe headaches. Only occasionally will I feel a vague headache.
Might want to schedule an appointment with the eye doc to have yourself checked out.
Slider lives in an RPG perhaps, where all wounds are healed by paying 10 gold and sleeping in a bed? :P
I work in an office environment too, and I've never had flickering or spotty vision going outside into blinding sunlight. I squint for a second until my pupils constrict to pinholes, but never "flickering lines" which is what made me go whoa wtf there.
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Okay, first of all, yes, go to a doctor, be referred to an eye specialist and have them test for Retinal Detatchment. Important.
However, what you get sounds like what I get. I started getting them (Ocular Migraines) at age 21. Started just as you described here, though mine turned into what I would describe as water running down a window -- but the water is mercury.
I started with getting 2 in 2 years. Then suddenly I had 3 in one year. Now I have between 8 & 14 a year. Mine last anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 hours, and make me completely useless as I can't see around the blur, and I get nauseous (to the point of vomiting) if I try to navigate around too much.
So, keep a journal of yours. Yes, this is your first one but they might keep coming, so just keep a note somewhere. Document them. After a year, if you have more than one, take your journal back to your doctor and have her write a note for you restating what your journal says.
Employers do NOT understand what this is, as it is a completely invisible (to others) issue, and it is not painful. Despite these facts, it renders you incapable of working unless you're a professional feeler of some kind.
If you want to talk about it at all, feel free to PM me. They're scary, but you get used to it.
Yeah, I picture him as the kind of guy that would then kill the Innkeeper and take back his gold.
Jesus Christ, Satan is skullfucking me with his thorned acid-spitting DoomCock
Because that shit hurts.
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Did my doctor misdiagnose or give me the wrong terminology?
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If the visual distortion spreads across both eyes, it's probably just a migraine headache with aura.
Generally "true ocular migraines" are one-sided only and come with the aforementioned demon-dong.
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I have United HealthCare but I'm not sure if its a HMO or PPO (have the option here). Our benefits are open for enrollment right now - should I switch to one or the other? I know one basic difference is that one plan lets you choose who to see willy-nilly and the other means you have to see a general practitioner who then refers you to specialists.
It's possible that you're confusing ocular migraine with migraines with auras. Some migraine sufferers experience visual symptoms (aura) that immediately precede the onset of a standard, painful migraine.
An ocular migraine is very frequently painless, and usually consists of just visual symptoms like those being described by some of the people here.
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Pretty sure you have this mixed up.
http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-migraine.htm
and i get the vision crap in both of my eyes
so ... i don't know
though i guess it sounds like the OP had a 'true ocular migraine', if what you're saying is true
Damn right. Teach him to take my gold...
...and provide you services. I'm just saying you may want to work on your business relationships.
Too bad he was the unlucky sod I was hired to kill. He made a mean stew. C'est la vie.
Or I'm just using the definition wrong, as many people have come to do.
http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/ocular-migraine-basics
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ocular-migraine/AN01681 Sensitivity to nitrites/nitrates/sulfites perhaps? You get the same reaction when you eat other processed meats, or drink red wine?
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For me, it's just like the OP - corporate environment, screen all day, looking away from the screen, suddenly, SNAP. Blindness.
Seriously though OP, despite everyone saying it's just an aura or whatever, you NEED to go have your retinas examined. That's painless too, and eye exams are fun!
I've never had visual illusions or anything like that but I've done long stints of data entry for a living before and I can say that going from a cubicle to the outdoors does sort of emphasize just how strained your eyes are and how used to only being in an environment in which everything is only a few feet away they are. If there's a window that you can see from your workstation (maybe there are squirrels outside and you can pretend they're married) just give it a glance of a minute or two every so often and try to focus on a distant object. For me it's some tiny spinning contraption on an A/C unit on the building across from mine's roof.