I noticed when I came into work this morning that my computer screen looked very blurry. After cleaning my glasses and having my usual morning coke (thinking perhaps I just wasn't very awake), the blurry vision was still there, now with white foggy patches. It's still hard to see, but I can do work reasonably well, so I started in. Then I started to get a headache, which I ignored. And then I had to pick up a reference book and read a few pages...I got that feeling you get if you're the kind of person who gets sick from reading in the car; it's kind of a unique feeling :\. Anyway, after walking around the office trying not to hurl, that feeling eventually passed.
Is this just screen fatigue? I feel worse when I'm reading and I had to take a couple of breaks from writing this post. Also have to blink and tilt my head just right to be able to see what I'm doing :X. Anyway, do I just need a nap or is this something to worry about?
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Go to the doctor.
Is this only when you look at a computer screen? Or when looking at anything? The white foggy patches sound bad.
So you have any, like lightning-type flashes at the corners of your eyes?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Yes - go to the doctor. Or call your primary doctor and see what they think you should do.
Elizabeth can give you a very good reason if you need one.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
That sounds like something's either interfering with your brain's perception of vision or your optic nerve. Either way, to the doctor right now (assuming no one else sees the screen looking like that, and if they do, to the computer repair shop).
Posted by ladyday (Member # 1069) on :
lol, yeah, I asked other people to look at my screen.
It's pretty much all the time now, though it's much more noticible when I'm reading.
Going to call up the doctor. Chances are I just need a new glasses perscription or something, but this feels awful enough to have me worried.
Posted by ladyday (Member # 1069) on :
And I guess the patches are sort of flashy sometimes :\. I don't know.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Go.
--Pop
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Go. To. The. Doctor.
I'll get my sword if I have to.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I can think of several different things you could be experiencing and a couple items on my list require an immediate trip to the doctor, so I say, go now.
Do you get migraines, btw?
(Augh, someone beat me to it!)
[ April 22, 2005, 11:58 AM: Message edited by: Theca ]
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
The exact same thing happens to me.
Then I get a migraine.
Turns out it was related to my birth control (OvCon) that I had temporarily switched to (6 months free--very tight budget). I changed back to my old brand (yasmin) and I haven't had one since. (3 weeks in.)
I had my eyes checked, though. The opthamalogist thought I was insane, because I have perfect vision. I never actually had a doctor tell me it was my birth control, though. But it was suggested to me by a nurse, and it just makes sense to me, seeing as I used to get migraines through puberty. I figure it's hormone-related.
-Katarain
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Hatrack Rule Of Thumb Number 8...
If you want to start a thread asking if you should go to a doctor, save yourself some time and GO STRAIGHT TO A DOCTOR!!!!
Posted by Wonder Dog (Member # 5691) on :
I get aura's (fuzzy, foggy patches) every once and a while. They start in the centre of my vision, then spred to the periphery, then I get a brutal headache (migrane!). Nothing wrong with my eyes - its all in my brain! When I first started getting them, they woud be triggered by diplays like lcd's or crt's. Now they come whenever they want!
Maybe this is something similar? (Either that, or your eyes are falling out again - use better retnal glue next time!)
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I get headaches like that occasionally. A blurry spot in the center of my vision which gradually spreads to the peripheries before it fades. Then the headache. A lot of the times it happens when I'm hungry.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Oh my! Did you go? Check in!
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
I just read this now, and I'll add my vote to the migraine list. Even if you don't get the headache, it could still be migraine aura without the headache. I get that. It can be fuzzy vision, or spots, or simple nausea/vomiting for a few hours, or take the form of other symptoms. In high school, I started noticing sometimes my vision would "go funny". It wasn't blurry, per se, but things like people's faces would just...not make sense to my eyes. Very hard to describe. Anyway, one time it got so bad I was completely blind, but still entirely conscious, so I finally went to the hospital and they told me I should have gone in sooner in case it were something else, and sent me for CAT scans and everything (although it turned out to be the migraine aura after all). Anyway, my point is you should go, if you haven't!!
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
My first thought was a migraine. Hope you feel better aoon.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Liz almost died recently, and it started with problems with her eyes.
Go now.
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Did you see a doctor? Are you feeling any better?
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I get those aura things too once in a while. So annoying. Usually starts as a little bright zip of light in my eye... like I'm actually seeing the path of a neuron dying or something... then the aura spreads out across my eye from that starting point. I basicly become blind for 20 minutes.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
You know, this thread is starting to remind me of the thread Elizabeth started. You know, that one she started right before she almost died? I really wish people would stop making these threads unless they've left specific instructions in bold print on the computer on how to leave an update at Hatrack. Or have a program like Sister Carlotta had where if you don't respond every 12 hours it automatically posts your obituary.
I mean, some of us are a bit obsessive, you know.
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Yeah, now I'm worried. Has anybody heard from ladyday?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I know, Kayla, I am very worried.
And I knew when I was sick how I had left everyone wondering.
Posted by ladyday (Member # 1069) on :
Hey, sorry I didn't update before. Didn't realize people would worry so much, I really do feel bad :\. Honestly it ended up being such a minor thing that I didn't want to make a big deal of it, and anyway I couldn't easily get to hatrack this weekend. I went to the doctor, they did 74032604276532053 tests. Mostly because I have a nice history of having weird problems that don't make any sense, heh. Also, I had kind of put off some lab work I was supposed to get...like 6 months ago. Which is one of the reasons I was scared to go to the doctor; I knew they would yell at me for not doing that. So I got scowled at and had to get tests.
Anyway, yeah, they decided it was just a migraine, which I get sometimes but I've never gone half blind from one :\.
Sorry again for making people worry :\.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Yay! You had a migraine!!
(Edit: as opposed to what we were worried it might be)(but I am pretty sure you knew that. Sorry if you took what I said literally)
[ April 25, 2005, 02:22 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*eyes up Elizabeth*
I know how you meant it, honey, but having just had the worst migraine of my life... Posted by Mayfly (Member # 7870) on :
Whew.
Nice to see ya around, ladyday.
--CT
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*glares at kq*
Your extra week is UP.
Have you taken care of finding out about that migraine?
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Has anybody heard from ladyday?
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