Sudden loss of vision, please advise

Sudden loss of vision, please advise

Hi,
Following couple of preliminary stages I now lost vision with my left
eye. About two weeks ago I started seeing pulsating dots forming a
chromatic crescent-like shape. The crescent was located in the left
side of my left eye vision (if you imagine a clock dial, the crescent
was from 7-11 o'clock) the rest of the left eye image was fine. This
abnormality disappeared in about an 30 min or so.

A week ago, however, I started seeing net of yellow dots superimposed
on the rest of the image. At this point I was referred to an
ophthalmologist. After the exam I was told that my left eye is healthy
and so the official conclusion was "aura of a migraine" (I did not have
headache/migraine before, at, or after the exam but I ought to mention
that my mum has acute migraine). I was told to make a follow up in
about a month.

All of a sudden, couple of days ago, I see almost nothing with my left
eye. This time I went to emergency. Currently, I see a grey circle and
I see nothing through it. I see heavily blurred object/subjects
occurring only in a very minimal peripheral area around the grey
circle. During the emergency exam I noticed that I don't actually see
any light source with my left eye regardless of its proximity. The
pulsating yellow dots are still there. If I cover my right (good) eye
then with my left eye I see almost nothing.

I'm 27 and I've been wearing mild prescription glasses for about 10
years. I've never had anything remotely close to this problem. What
might be causing this?

L.S.

 

Dear L.S.,

I am not a doctor, but I has similar
symptoms. From long research,
and the fact that a cousin lost her
vision to a detached retina, I was
well aware of this possibility.

I am surprised you were not examined
for this possibility. The normal
process is to "stich" the retina
back to the back of the eye using
pusles from a laser.

Your problem might not be this way, but
perhaps you should get a second opinion.

Best,

Otis

 

A retinal detachment comes to mind and I hope they tested for this! Do
you feel any pain in that eye? Has the doctors tested for all possible
signs of disease? There has to be a reason why you went blind in one
eye! This is scary and I hope the doctors can restore vision in that
eye!

 

Sounds like it might be an optic nerve problem and if this is the case
you really need to be seeing an expert urgently, not asking on the internet.

Any sudden total loss of vision like yours, especially unresolved, is an
emergency situation.

What was the result of your emergency exam? Surely they tried find the
cause of your problem at the time? Did they just send you home?

Dom

 

My experience with visual migraine disturbances is that they
affect the vision of both eyes in a similar manner, and that they
last less than an hour.

Curiously, at about the time I had my first episode, I also had an
attack of something which was said to be "chorioretinitis". It
threw out floaters, and caused a persistent "scotoma" (flashing
blind spot), which could be seen by doctors as lesion between
the center of the retina, and the point of optic-nerve entry.

I was treated by an MD with hypodermic injections of foreign
protein". I am glad you reminded me of this, because I mean to
enter it in my white paper about strange experiences with medical
doctors. It was a young doctor at a college health service. I was
a student then (>50 years ago).

Over decades, the lesion healed so that the scotoma was no longer
apparent, and no scar could be seen with a retinascope. Today
I have floaters in both eyes, but worse in the subject eye.

The "migraine disturbances" continue but are very infrequent, and
pass quickly, particular if I chew up and swallow an aspirin tablet.
I have never had a migraine headache.

Today I would conclude that the two events|conditions were coincidentally
related though at the time it was thought that they were causally related.

I will be interested to learn what an opthamologist, or other medical
doctor, may say after examining you. (Along with leeches, it is doubtful
if they do subcutaneous foreign proteins anymore.)

 

wrote in @g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

What did they tell you there?