Another Visual Challenge

[Strhuntrss]

Another visual challenge is at hand. Has anyone had these same challenges.

As I have been here before with visual issues, this new one is quite annoying.

I had the pleasure this easter weekend to learn how to make Pasanky Eggs. What beautiful works of art they are. Could not pick which ones I loved the best.

I made two eggs from scratch (pencil sketch to waxing to dipping to wiping them clean) all close up work.

As I have done close work before and knowing the importance to good lighting and resting the eyes periodically, I found my eyes could not adjust to driving home.

It was a cloudy day, I was not tired, but the eyes couldn't focus very well in driving. Oncoming cars made me uncomfortable, as they seem to be closer than I thought.

I felt like I had tunnel vision. The periphrial seemed to not be working very well. I was nervous to drive to say the least.

If a police officer were to pull me over, he might think that I was drunk because when I walked out of the car to go to the store, I could not walk straight.

Honestly ...I didn't even have a drink, lol.

Your thoughts and ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I surely don't want to have to call my neuro/opthalmologist with something that really isn't a big deal.

It has happened before, but I thought I was tired at the time.

Both of those times it took me almost until the next day to recover.

[Selsia]

I suggest you see a optometrist. From what you described from your drive home it sounds kind of like diplopia (which technically is double vision). I got diagnosed after my vision looked like I was drunk all the time - the problem was a lesion in where I process vision in my brain and so, even though I did not see true double, I had "double vision" because my brain was not putting the images together smoothly. I suggest an optometrist because I only saw true double (and figured out the problem) when we were testing my vision.

I hope this has all passed now, but keep it in mind.

[22cyclist]

If it lasts >24 hours, go see your ophthalmologist and have them send a note to your neurologist. It could be that you are just feeling off-balance, and it has nothing to do with your eyes, but you have to rule that out.

Good luck, let us know how it goes.

Lisa