Has this every happened to anyone??

[Mary_emily 3]

Hello everyone, 

Has anyone awoken with blurry vision in one eye? Yesterday when I awoke I noticed that my right eye was blurry, it went away after rubbing it a couple times and blinking. However it scared the heck out of me, in which I ended up in the ER as I could not calm down. When I got to the ER they did a vision test which was fine, the MD did a field vision test and it was fine, No other tests. I asked if I needed a CT scan and he said no as the blurry vision did not linger and was gone. He did give me some Ativan in which calm my nerves. 

 

I do have an appointment to have an MRI on Saturday and then a follow-up with my neurologist to go over my test results.

Thanks in advance

[Mark G 1187]

Hello,

Does this blur look like you are looking through a bubble when you wake and takes a while for it to go?

[Mary_emily 3]

This actually only lasted about less than a minute, as it hard to explain. It was just very blurry could not make out anything in the right eye.

[Mark G 1187]

My sister worked in an opticians.  I asked her about this very thing a few years ago as i was experiencing it in my left eye a lot when i woke an it sometimes took an hour to go.  She told me that this is because of the protective oil coating on the eye.  When you are asleep, this oil coating is produced and the balance between oil and water on the eye becomes unbalanced.  When you wake, there is more oil on the eye than is needed so the eye absorbs the excess oil and creates the right balance. It is nothing to do with focus issues or an issue with the eye, it's simply one of those things which happens.  It not dangerous in any way, perfectly natural and NOTHING to worry about.

[Mary_emily 3]

Thank you Mark! That is almost exactly what my PCP told me yesterday when I went for a follow-up following my visit to the ER. 

[Mark G 1187]

There you go, so what you do when you wake up is, notice the blurring but instead of reacting to it with fear and 'what if's' acknowledge that it is just a normal bodily process which has no significance whatsoever.  Keep practicing this, let the initial flash fear pass, dont catastrophize or expand on the thought, let it pass through.  By the time you have done this, the blurring would have gone anyway.  Don't be alarmed if it last longer that a few minutes as, like i said, i used to get this for longer than an hour (still do), but i couldn't care less about it.

[Mary_emily 3]

Thank you! Am trying reallyt hard to not let fear and the "what-if's" get to me. It really is not that easy. All I can think about is having MS, I have an MRI on Saturday and I have already had the nerve study done ( that was not fun) so hopefully it will answer some questions. I just feel like everyday it is something new/or something that I have experienced before and it went away and then comes back. I feel like some days are better than others and other days are just full of panic attacks. 

[Mark G 1187]

Oh yes, i understand that it is not easy, absolutely not.  None of us would be here if it were easy to do.  Practice makes perfect however.  It's good that you are getting the tests done and will help you. Realise however that anxiety is a sod, it will fool you in to not believing in test results regardless of how thorough they are.  It's the state of thinking which needs altering as well as good test results.  You summed HA up perfectly there, it throws new things at you all the time like it is testing your resolve.  This is why i believe acceptance is such an important tool, it helps remove fear and in turn lessens adrenalin which is the food for anxiety.  Anxiety also revisits old symptoms, as soon as you are over one, it will jump back to one which you thought you were over in the past.  This is classic and runs like clockwork.    

[jonathan123 2368]

Now I will tell you a funny story which, in the circumstances, you may not find funny, but it's a good example of how our nerves can fool us. I got up one morning and put my distance glasses on. One eye was completely out of focus when I looked into the distance. I normally see perfectly with glasses but this morning NO. A big problem! OMG what is it? All the various scenarios came up, you can imagine. My wife was told. 'Of course one eye is blurred' she said, 'the lens has dropped out'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. It was true. I found it, put it back in and bingo, all was well. Jumping to conclusions is a big mistake in anxiety.      Jon.