Weird night! I was fine, took a nap and when I woke up I put my glasses on, turned on my computer and my left eye would not focus. I knew there were words but they were kind of doubled looking and out of focus. Scared the crap out of me. I waited a tiny bit, called the on call doc and my son and I took off for the ER. This is when it gets weird. On the way there I was stopped at a stoplight and looked at something that had printed words on it from over the top of my glasses and I could see perfectly out of that eye! What the heck is that about???? So we continued on to the ER. I could read perfectly without my glasses when I looked at a paper in the ER but hardly at all with my glasses on. It slowly got better and is fine now. I do need to go get a good eye exam. The doctor thinks I had a floater while I was sleeping and it lodged in a certain area that with the strength of my glasses affected my vision in that eye. (Or something like that!). That was so weird I wanted to share.
PS I had no headache, no spots, flashes, etc....

I don't want to scare you, but in December, DH had a few days when he temporarily couldn't see out of one eye off and on. When he finally told me, I hustled his butt to the ER, which sent him to the ophthalmologist, who sent him to the retinologist, who sent him back to the hospital. He was there for three days. Pieces of plaque were breaking off from an artery in his neck and lodging in a vein in his eye, blocking the blood to the eye and rendering that eye temporarily blind. This repeated over the course of the days. It's scary because it could have gone to his brain instead of his eye, which would have caused a stroke. Now he's on asipirin and Lipitor and being monitored very closely. The extensive tests he had showed it was only a 30% blockage of the carotid artery, thank goodness, but this could have ended disastrously for us.

I HOPE yours is only the floater the doctor thinks, but I urge you to get it checked out NOW, without delay, especially if it repeats. Like you, he felt fine and had no other symptoms.

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Going in this afternoon! I really think it's ok though. I'm already on Lipitor and aspirin. I could see just not read anything and it did go away. But thanks for the info!

Hey Kathy. . .sorry to here that. It's a really good idea to get it checked out. I've never had it in just one eye before, but I have had it in both eyes in the past. . .first time I had a bad kidney infection and the last time was during my last pregnancy. . .again something to do with the kidneys. I'm not really sure how that works but both times it wasn't serious and cleared up once the kidneys were ok. Btw. . .what's a floater? I've never heard of that.

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Have you ever had a little dot like thing that seems to move around when you move your eye or your head? They don't last long and are pretty common.

Oh ok. . .I had just never heard that term before. Did you find anything else out yet?

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Wellllll, the eye doctor did not see anything bad. He didn't think it was a floater though. He does want me to go to the doc and have my carotid (sp) artery on that side checked out although I'm young for those problems and I also already take lipitor and a baby aspirin. I'm just wondering why the ER doctor didn't check that out right then. I might actually call them. For the price you pay for an ER visit seems like that should have been checked. Thanks!

Thanks for the tip! I don't know why the ER doc didn't think of that though.

Kathy,

Five years ago I started having a similar thing happen where I would feel as though my left eye were trying to cross (it wasn't) and I could only read by covering my left eye. It would usually last an hour or so and then I'd be fine. I was convinced I just needed a new prescription for my glasses. About a month later I had a stroke - it turned out that I'd actually been having TIA's. Hopefully this isn't the case with you but it really is best to get it checked out. I hope everything turns out okay!

Yes, I'm going to. I'm not too worried only because the ER doc said he didn't think it was strokelike but I'm going to my reg doctor just to make sure they don't want to look into it further.

My daughter gets these....
Guide to Ocular Migraines (Ophthalmic or Eye Migraines) - AllAboutVision.com

She was initially mis-dx'd in the E.R. as having burst a small blood vessel in her eye. She was referred to an ophthalmologist, and he knew what the real issue was...

This was mentioned but it didn't seem to match my specific symptoms. Thanks though!

DH's ER doctor didn't think of it, either. I'm sure if he'd realized what was really going on, DH would never have left the hospital that morning. It took it happening in the retinologist's office for them to understand what was happening.

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