Hi everyone,
I feel like my anxiety had improved and reduced a lot since last year which was my worst year for anxiety and I managed to control it better.
Last year among many other things I worried about my sight and it became an obsession. It all started because on holiday I looked in the sky and saw not floaters but small floaters that are kind of clumped together in a circle but don’t float around my vision but they’re not still either. They kind of bounce around in the center of my vision. Every time I see them they always ldentical to last time and they are always in both my eyes since I checked.
After I came home worrying my vision was damaged or something I had an eye test straightaway. I had my pupils dialed, had retina scans, peraphrial vision tests ect (they checked everything) And everything came back fine. Which was a relief for me until I realised those symptoms still botherd me. I ended up having them checked again everything still fine.
After a long long time I moved on and accepted everything was fine. And everytime I get those symptoms I began blocking them out and it stopped bothering me. Until today over a year later. I still get the same symptom I described at the start of this post but mostly only on sunny days outside when looking at certain backgrounds espessialy a blank piece of paper for instance.
I ignored it as usual because I know I’ve had it for over a year and I already had it checked. However later on I shaved and when I was looked in the corner of my eye to really see what I was doing I saw a purple dots in the corner of my eye. I tried to look at them harder to see what they were and then it got worse so I looked away then purple dots were flashing everywhere I looked and it looked like something that was real. It stopped after a few seconds. It’s been a few hours and I haven’t had it since.
However, ever since that happened it’s left me a bit worried in case it means somethings wrong with my vision. And I keep thinking about the symptom I’ve had for a year and the fact that I don’t know anyone else who’s experienced the same thing (only normal floaters) And I keep wondering if it’s something to worry about. I also worry I’ll have this forever as the symptom makes reading or drawing in the sun a real annoyance because I keep concentrating on it.
But then I think if it was dangerous something would have happened to my vision by now since its been so long and I can see just fine. (touch wood) And I’ve also had the tests but it’s making me wonder if I should have the test again or if I’m just over stressing because after all health anxiety will always be there.
Sorry this was so long felt the need to vent it all haha. Anyway I was wondering if anyone has ever had a similar experience and mabey some advice. I think it’s good to talk to people who are going through the same thing as you or have been through it. Thanks in advance.
Actually I thought I was the only one worried about this same issue. My biggest fear is to be blind and any vision issue like eye floaters or veins or redness or anything that happens that’s not dangerous or uncommon, it makes me freak out. When I’m at my anxiety peak like this past 3 months, I went to the Ophtalmologist 3 times!! I think they are so annoyed about me coming back and telling me I’m fine, but I feel you because it doesn’t feel fine and it’s super annoying and the anxiety makes us focus more on it. Today I had a group of eye floaters which to me was unusual and I think it’s a side effect of the medication I’m recently changing to, on top of that I have dry eyes due to the Zoloft I took and it was a nightmare I seriously thought I was gonna go blind until I switched, mind you, I’m still dealing with dry eyes, blurry vision, and weird glares and floaters. I think at this point I kind of accepted that it’s the anxiety and the meds and I notice it really improves when I sleep well and of course without Zoloft. Have you been sleeping well? Also my neurologist told me this also happened because of lack of sleep so there you go, anxiety, lack of sleep and not the most healthy diet doesn’t help! Anyways I hope this helps and I think we are fine we just freak out specially about our eyes which sucks so much. But you’re not the only one I talk about my eyes and complain every single day my husband is tired about hearing this.
I used to think I was the only one as well. Our eyes are super important and help us live our every day lives and we rely on them a lot. So I think it’s probably easy to worry a lot when strange symptoms to do with our eyes start happening.
I used to think the doctors and options were probably annoyed with me too when I kept coming back but it became like an obsession so I felt it necessary to keep checking even though the result is always the same. I guess that’s a health anxiety classic. The second time I went there I was actually diagnosed with dry eye so I keep hoping that that may be the cause for my symptoms.
Ah yes I’ve heard of zoloft causing visual disturbances somewhere.
That makes sense. I’ve always been the kind of person to stay up late but I could fall asleep if I wanted to I just used to feel like staying up. But these days even though my anxiety lately has been quite controlled I feel almost scared to lie in bed with the lights off and let my brain roam. It makes me feel like I’m going to start over thinking about stuff and then developing a new anxiety about something. So for weeks I’ve been watching stuff or reading until I fall asleep and it can take ages sometimes. I’ve actually been thinking about asking the doctor for sleeping pills or something.
Thanks for your help and reassurance and I relate about your husband getting tired of you saying about your symptoms. Last year I would go on about it constantly but after all that went away these days I’ve been almost pretending it’s not there to avoid the kind of anxiety from last year. It’s almost like I’m pretending I don’t have anxiety and thinking that will make it go away which is probably not a healthy idea.
Hey ! I am suffering from eye problems which is making me freak out for last 2 months. A strain or grittiness in my left eye . My whole concentration is on my eyes the time. I think anxiety makes it worse. Read that chronic anxiety (stress) often have impact on eyes.
For last 1 month started Sertraline.