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I woke up from a brief(5minute) nap, and my vision was out of focus. I had taken out my contacts, and had my glasses on. I just put my contacts back in to check, and it is still out of focus. i am typing with one eye. (well, with my fingers, but i can only see with one eye.)
If I close one eye, I can see out of it in the normal nearsighted way, but when both eyes are open, it feels like one eye is higher than the other.
Thoughts?
This happened once before when i took a short nap, but only lasted a few minutes. I'm thinking it might be difficult to drive to work tomorrow.
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Um...this out of focus thing and repetition of it... I know that when I used to wear contacts it would happen from dry eyes. Sometimes allergies and the itchy eye thing would happen.
I hate to mention it, but that's also a warning sign of type 2 diabetes. I'm not sure of the exact description of "out of focus" or blurred vision, but it is at least something to worry needlessly over.
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OK, I now have my glassestilted at an angle on my face, and I can see without squinting one eye.
There is a headache there, sort of above my eye, on my upper forehead. I do have sinus issues, and have not been taking my Claritin for a few days. I have never had a migraine. I am going to sleep to see if that helps. i have been ultra stressed lately.
Also I have been making a lot of typos, written ones too. Like I leave off the end letter of words. or the last digit of a number.
That really sounds like a migraine. The pain is in just the right place. Last few times I've had messed up vision from a migraine coming on, I've had patches missing from my vision--which would mean missing letters if I'm writing something.
I've woken to a lack of focus and improper tracking in one eye due to my forearm covering and pressing down on one eye while sleeping, or part of the pillow pressing against my eye while sleeping partially face down. But the condition lasted for only a very short time, a few minutes while my eye sprang back into shape. Since you've been experiencing the problem for an extended period of time, PLEASE GO SEE A DOCTOR.
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I'm sorry I wasn't here to see this, Elizabeth. I'm glad you are going to get checked out by a professional.
Although very temporary double vision (like, less than a minute) isn't that uncommon over the course of a life, extended double vision sure is. I would worry most about neuromuscular problems.
Let us know what happens! *fingers crossed
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Yeah! C'mon, Elizabeth -- this is your year to lord it over Yankees fans! Make the most of it! ("Just wait 'til next year!") Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
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Ack I'm having issues with one of my eyes not tracking to the same spot as the other. It's mild enough that I only notice it when I look at faces and it only happened twice once for a while and then another time for a much shorter period of time. I'm hoping this is due to my lack of sleep the two days before I finally got 10 hrs. But now this thread is freaking me out!! And then I remembered I had weird ringing in my ears a week ago. Argh. I shall not freak out I shall not freak out.
I don't want to go to student death they'll probably just eye me warily.
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Sarah, go to the doctor immediately!! Please. If I had waited, I don't think I would be here.
When my thing started, it was after a nap. i woke up and saw double and it did not go away. I could put my glasses on cock-eyed and that worked. I decided to "sleep on it." When I awoke, I had to cover one ey in order to see. I went to the doctor, and he sent me immediately to the opthamologist, who sent me immediately for a Cat scan and MRI. When we were leaving to go home, I couldn't walk and I was slurring my speech. My left side was all weird. I thought I was having a stroke.
I was very lucky that an infectious disease doctor was around, because he figured out what i had and immediately put me on steroids.
It is probably NOT what I had(ADEM) but please check it out, and call me if you need help with anything. Liz
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Double vision for brief intermittant periods (~ less than 1 min), especially after times of sleep deprivation, is not that uncommon. However, if it concerning to you and/or it is happening frequently (more than 3 times a day), it seems most prudent to get it checked out by a medical professional -- certainly, especially if there isn't someone right there to watch over you.
Any physician can do a brief cranial nerve and mental status exam. That could rule in or out most of the immediately concerning things.
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So I went and they told me they think it's migraines w/o the headaches or the stomach problems. I find this idea very...umm weird. But whatever. Apparently I am perfectly fine. And since my semester is over hopefully I'll be getting enough sleep. For the next couple of weeks.
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Do you have a history of migraine in yourself or your family? Did the person who examined you make you look in different directions, raise your eyebrows, stick out your tongue, etc.?
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She made me do all the sticking tounge out stuff. I have no history, that I'm aware of, of migraines in my family.
I think maybe my sometimes lazy eye was just a little lazier b/c it was sleepy. Okay so I know that's not a medically sound diagnosis.
I had a hard time describing to them that one eye just didn't seem to be "keeping up". That was how my friends described what they saw happening.
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I mean, all the brain neurochemicals are found in the gut -- it's like a second brain. And then there's the whole women craving chocolate thing, with chocolate raising serotonin and endorphin levels.
The body is a crazy and marvelous thing.
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I have a migrane variant, too. I guess I'm not as weird as I thought. Thanks for the linky, Sara.
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Yeah, Sara, I did research on it. 95% of your serotonin receptors are in your intestines. 95%! They're responsible for pain management and all the fun bowel stuff.
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kq, I used to get the pain and nausea, but now I mostly just lose my vision. Scary until I knew what was happening, but certainly better than the other. Posts: 2919 | Registered: Aug 2004
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I seriously can't wait until I can research this stuff full time. Bodies, brains and neurochemicals, oh my!
What's cool is I get to discuss the neurochemical elements of my meds with my docs. Like he just added Seroquel which is a serotonin antagonist. After 5 days, my abdominal pain comes back. Hmmm. Will have to switch the SSRI to morning and raise it.
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Well, not a history so much as just that I can sometimes randomly see my nose when I normally can't. It's sorta weird. My eye doctor just brushed it off as my eye sometines being a little lazy. I dunno that it was a diagnosis per say.
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Wow... maybe it was migranes that I had back in high school.
Twice in high school I had very bad headaches preceeded by a blindspot in my vision. It only happened twice, so I never got it checked out, and I havn't had it happen since. I've never suffered from any kind of visual problem (other than my eyes slowly getting worse), and diagnosing the blindspot myself was a really strange experience. After about half an hour, a wave of pain hit. The only thing that felt good was cold, so I had my head on the table with my teeth clenched.
I never get headaches except because of sickness, extreme tiredness, or hours of high-strain vision (low-refresh monitors, high-contrast images, and the like).
Huh, I'll keep that in mind if it ever happens again.
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I get "swirly vision", sometimes severe pain, sometimes mild pain, light sensitivity, dizziness, and quite often they're accompanied by my "IBS" symptoms.
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When I was in the hospital, for the first few days my left eye was pointing towards my nose.
If you have a history of lazy eye, I will leave you alone, but if you need me any time, you call. It stinks to be away from family when you are not feeling good.
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My eyes seem to be behaving all day today. Woo.
I should give you a call anyway. I'm driving allllll the way across the country to Nebraska this weekend so I'll have lots of time to sit on the phone being bored out of my mind.
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Incidentally, Sara S., if you are still looking at this thread, my "thing" hits chidren more often than adults, and I thought you would want to know that. The doctors are definitely watching me because it is such a rare virus(or whatever it s called. not a disease, I don't think.) They want to see what worked, and how I am doing, and all that.
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Thanks, Elizabeth. I was initially perturbed by the Guiilan-Barre diagnosis because that usually ascends from the feet, and it didn't seem to fit.
However, I'd never even heard of ADEM, so I've done some reading up on it. Again, thanks.
And (((Liz))) -- tought stuff.
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Sara, the G-B diagnosis was just one doctor who read everything wrong. No one else had diagnosed it as that.
One good thing about this is that I miss the pre-holiday hell at school. This week and the last fw weeks of the school year are the longest imaginable. They are at least five times as long as regular weeks.
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