Blindness and how to deal with it

[This is Red]

I'm going to kick this discussion off with a bit of a story, bear with me.

Earlier today (one o'clock to be precise) I was just playing a game on my PS3, not a care in the world. However, I died in said game, because I ran out of health. Odd, considering that I always kept a sharp eye on my health. Before I noticed it, my health just meter just vanished from my sight. It was then that I noticed that I couldn't see out of my left eye.

At first I panicked. I rushed to the bathroom, telling myself that I just had something in my eye or and the like. Washing my face for ten minutes - no luck. So I went back to my room, and started searching the web for anything to do with curing blindness.

A few hours later and a fuckton of searching done, my vision has returned to normal. My mother says it was simply a migraine, but i'm not so sure. In the worst case, I might have glaucoma. I just wanted to know if any of you might of had any similar experiences and I would very much like to hear how you pushed through them.

Aferall, having relied on sight my entire life, the thought of not being able to see anymore scares me quite a bit.

All right, i'm done talking about this morbid crap.

Lets have lunch.

[Dallas]

oh god

#pray4red

I hope everything is okay, man! Stay strong and get medical help asap.

[Darthwill]

Go to the doctor, where do you want to go for lunch?

[Statua]

It could be anything from a nerve moving the wrong way to bloodflow to your brain. But honestly, if this is the first time it has happened and you have had no other symptoms with it (ie, dizzyness, acute headache, blurred vision, etc) it shouldn't be anything to worry about. If it occurs in the future, consider arranging an appointment with your/an eyedoctor.

inb4 brain tumor MedMD

[Khub]

This has happened to me a few times as well - usually when I stare into the computer screen for too long (you don't want to know how many hours in a row, trust me), I get headache and my vision goes all weird. Usually helps when I take a break, bath, shower, whatever.

[cookiesofamerica]

This has happened to me a few times as well - usually when I stare into the computer screen for too long (you don't want to know how many hours in a row, trust me), I get headache and my vision goes all weird. Usually helps when I take a break, bath, shower, whatever.

It has something to so with the nerves in the eye, its probably strained but I'm not a doctor so :S

[Yak]

You probably have diabetes, changing of vision is a sympton

[wakeboarderCWB]

I would try and take a 5 minute break every 30 mins or so from staring at a TV/Monitor. Your eyes may be focusing on a single part and takes a bit to readjust. Don't quote me, though, as I'm no doctor.

[Vinneh]

You shouldn't sit there staring at the TV/COMPUTER all day. It's really bad for you.

[rBST Cow]

I'm no doctor but I don't think you should worry all to much. If it happens again, then I'd say just get a checkup with the doctor.

At least that's what I'd do if I was you.

[Anzu]

You shouldn't sit there staring at the TV/COMPUTER all day. It's really bad for you.

I've done that for the past many years and have no problems at all, never had.

[Reaver]

I've had this happen many many times.
I have a cyst on my brain and I get severe migrains every so often. A precursor to this is my vision slowly becoming fuzzy. It eventually gets to the point where I can focus on nothing and my field of vision resembles a dark room. I freaked out the first time, but it's happened so many times that it no longer worries me.
Like Red said, it's probably an optical migraine.

[Sithis]

I haven't had this before, but I have had issues where everything is just fuzzy (I have 20/20 vision) and there are like these black spots in my vision.

[Sean Archer]

It happens with me on the occasion, it's as though I have looked at the sun or a bright car light at night or something, probably best to go and have a check up with your Doctor or something.

[Sithis]

I think I might be needing to get glasses, I've had great vision (20/20) for all of my life, but all of my family has bad vision and I'm 14, around the age my family started getting bad vision. Today everything started to go a bit fuzzy, not far away things, but mainly I had issues reading close up things for some reason.