my eyes! help please.

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dodedoo New Member Date Joined Aug 2006 Total Posts : 13	Posted 10/10/2006 10:57 PM (GMT -6)
	So my anxiety/panic started in big time around May/June of this year. After my first initial panic attacks I began to get dizzy. And it made me craaazy. I didn't know why I was so dizzy. And it seems like my eyes were playing tricks with me. Like I couldn't perceive depth as well anymore. This have continuted, being more noticeable at some times more than others. More recently, lets say, in the past 2-3 weeks, I've noticed a floater in my left eye. Maybe more than one I'm not sure. I've closed both of my eyes each time and like thoroughly examined them. And i'm pretty sure its solely in my left eye. Okay so the question(s): Does anxiety cause vision problems such as floaters? Perhaps, why? Could it be something else (I do wear contacts and have myopia) And does it go away at all? Thanks a bunch! Back to Top

Twiggygal Veteran Member Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 933	Posted 10/11/2006 2:42 AM (GMT -6)
	What is a floater can I ask? Depth perception... well I don't know.. I'm having that problem lately too but it might be the Ativan while I'm driving as I tend to veer a lil this way and a lil that way on the road LOL. But yeah I know what you maen, my eyes seem to play tricks on me too. And then I start panicing... and then yeah... a whirlwind of chaos I guess. Perhaps if you wear your contacts too much you should take them out for a couple days or so, and wear glasses. That might help. I don't think anxiety necessarily causes vision problems, I think maybe the drugs could make you feel a lil dizzy and feel like there is a lack of depth perception. But then again, I'm no doctor. Twiggygal~ *"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."* Back to Top

Howlyncat Elite Member Date Joined Jan 2005 Total Posts : 24909	Posted 10/11/2006 3:56 AM (GMT -6)
	I would be checked out by your optometrist sounds like it is needed I have not heard of vision probs with this illness BUT you never know ............ Contribute today to support Healing Well Forums...Donate @ http://www.healingwell.com/donate/ Don't Comprimise Yourself :you are all you have Never Give up on Yourself ,Your True friends nor your Dignity Back to Top

Scaredy Cat Forum Moderator Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 27662	Posted 10/11/2006 9:01 AM (GMT -6)
	I have heard of it and experienced it and I don't take meds, bit if it would make you feel better, get it checked out by the doctor. Your g.p. is a good place to start, or they may refer to the opothamologist godd luck Scaredy Cat "Courage is not the absence of fear...it is being afraid, and doing it anyway!" Back to Top

paniccu Veteran Member Date Joined Apr 2005 Total Posts : 1011	Posted 10/11/2006 9:49 AM (GMT -6)
	Hey there! I would get your eyes checked out too, just to be on the safe side. It's probably nothing to worry about though. That happened to me several years ago when I was first experiencing anxiety too. I went to an Opthimologist for an examination and they told me that floaters are perfectly harmless and that they increase with age. I was only about 29 at the time so it's not like I was old . The doctor did check to make sure it wasn't something more serious and that put my mind at ease. I don't think that there's a connection between anxiety and floaters, but maybe we are more aware of them because we are always on alert about everything. Back to Top

dodedoo New Member Date Joined Aug 2006 Total Posts : 13	Posted 10/11/2006 10:33 AM (GMT -6)
	Yeah I'm only 20 years old so I'm not sure if the floaters are because of my old age lol. But I know that they can happen more frequently in people w/myopia (I read that online)... I definitely will go to an opthamologist though to see whats going on. Thanks all! BTW, floaters are things that float around in your visual field. They can look like different things I think. Maybe web-like or thready. The one I experience is kind of like a long, windy thread. Its a little creeeepy. Back to Top

paniccu Veteran Member Date Joined Apr 2005 Total Posts : 1011	Posted 10/11/2006 10:49 AM (GMT -6)
	Mine look like a thread or a little piece of dust Back to Top

Twiggygal Veteran Member Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 933	Posted 10/11/2006 1:27 PM (GMT -6)
	I used to have those "floaters" when I first started having anxiety and don't have them as much anymore. Thanks for tellin me what they are cuz I wasn't sure. *"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."* Back to Top

Howlyncat Elite Member Date Joined Jan 2005 Total Posts : 24909	Posted 10/11/2006 3:02 PM (GMT -6)
	Well seems that a good thing then to do is get yourself checked out I personally have not had this but as I see others have Always learning Keep us posted Lyn Contribute today to support Healing Well Forums...Donate @ http://www.healingwell.com/donate/ Don't Comprimise Yourself :you are all you have Never Give up on Yourself ,Your True friends nor your Dignity Back to Top

Mooney123 Regular Member Date Joined Jun 2006 Total Posts : 240	Posted 10/12/2006 2:58 AM (GMT -6)
	yes, i have vision problems from PD. My depth perception was gone for awhile. I see floaters, fuzziness, spots, after-images and have traily vision. Back to Top

Howlyncat Elite Member Date Joined Jan 2005 Total Posts : 24909	Posted 10/12/2006 3:25 AM (GMT -6)
	Thanks Mooney for your input How are you doing Lyn Contribute today to support Healing Well Forums...Donate @ http://www.healingwell.com/donate/ Don't Comprimise Yourself :you are all you have Never Give up on Yourself ,Your True friends nor your Dignity Back to Top

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