Mama said I'd go blind, but...

[legalmoose]

... this is silly.

Today has been all about my eyes and how they are failing me. Quickly and unexpectedly, it seems.

Got up this morning, got ready for work, walked out of the building into the sunlight, and things looked... off. Distorted. Not much, but enough to be noticeable and irritating. And headache inducing. So I did what any normal glasses-wearing person does, I cleaned my lenses. Still distorted. Blinked rapidly, rubbed the eyes, still distorted. Grrr. Held the right eye closed, left eye saw things clearly. Held the left closed, the right was off. WTF?

Got done with my swim, got to work, had my necessary meeting with Da Boss at 10, then off to the optometrist to get worked in to an appointment. Tested, eyes dialated, cornea curvature checked, everything he could do there was done and... nothing looked wrong. But suddenly, literally overnight, I was 20/20 (corrected) in the left eye and now was 20/30 (corrected) in my right eye. Bee-zarre.

So he referred me to an opthalmologist. Where I went, sat (hungry by this point - it was noonish or so), finally got back, tested, confirmed that I was 20/30 corrected with full lens and 20/25 corrected with a pinhole test. Then we looked at it again, optic nerve looked good, curvature was fine. Normal results on periperal vision, color vision, etc. Then we got to take lots of pictures of the retina, both before and after shooting up a lovely red dye (well, it was red when it went in - it's bright neon yellow when I'm peeing it out now LOL!). Again, normal and fully healthy.

So, nothing looks wrong at this point. But we can't explain why suddenly my right eye is a measure off from where it was yesterday. Have a follow up next week (when, thankfully, I already had off for other doctor appointments) to see if anything else is up. The only other real test to do is an MRI, and we decided that was a bit of overkill at this point, but we'll see how I do over the week.

Fun!

(NOT!)

Comments

[legalmoose]

Glad you enjoyed it. Good thing I had an extra pair of undies in my swim bag, too. It seems this was not the day to wear my favorite new pair of white diesel undies. :-/

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you'll have to model those for us some other time. ;)

[eyow.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is how they did it, but I have a picture in my mind of having a dye injected into your eyeball, and it's pretty seriously freaking me out.

[legalmoose]

Ick. No. Red dye into right arm, picture taken in about 7 seconds when it reaches the eye, and at several periods after that. But no needles in the eyeballs, thanks. ;-p

[eyow.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness. Eye stuff kind of freaks me out, but the thought of a needle into an eyeball is pretty much going to kill the rest of my day, I think.

Isn't it cool how that stuff goes in one place and gets distributed where it needs to go?

Dear Moose's right eye:

[grok.livejournal.com]

Please resume your normal functionality as soon as possible.

TCCIC
Tod

(bad Natasha Impression)

Moose Eye! No more to be having problem!

[unbleachedbrun.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a stress, BP, or blood sugar shift. Diabetes run in your family? Are you the typical young workaholic and hypertensive lawyer?

[jss]

I tend to get visual artifacts (mainly, the right (dominant) eye refuses to focus and things stay blurry for several hours if not all day) before a migraine strikes. I hope it's not that, too.

[a-trick-mind.livejournal.com]

With that dye, your pee looks more like yellow paint for a while.

You might consider taking a glucose tolerance test to see if you are getting rapid fluctuations in your blood glucose levels. That can cause the symptoms you experienced. Tim is an insulin dependent diabetic and he has to keep several pairs of glasses around to properly compensate for normal vision and high and low blood glucose levels.