Suddenly can’t really see

[FindingMyWayThrough1]

I wear glasses and am short sighted. Yesterday my glasses worked fine. Today, things are blurry. It’s such a drastic change and usually when I need new glasses it deteriorates over time and is not a sudden change. Has anyone else experienced this

Have you made an emergency optician appointment?

Definitely warrants an emergency optician appointment.

My goodness OP you must get an emergency Opticians appointment.

You cant take chances with your eyesight.

I echo the previous posts. Are you definitely wearing the correct glasses and are they clean? I ask as I am the person who put a too-low powered contact lens in by mistake then went to an optician's appointment thinking my sight had got really bad and I hadn't noticed before🙄

I’d go straight to A&E and hopefully they will ping you through to Eye Casualty.

I’m no expert but I fear it could be a detached retina. You need to be seen absolutely straight away.

Go now. Good luck x

Moorfields. Now.

Do you just assume everyone on here lives in London? The closest eye hospital to OP would be a better idea!

Don't bother with an optician, go straight to eye casualty.

Do you know where the OP lives then?

Maybe she isn't even in the UK.

Ridiculous comment.

If I needed an emergency eye appointment I certainly wouldn't travel a 500 mile round trip taking 6 1/2 hours each way to a hospital in the south when we have a perfectly good eye infirmary in Sunderland and takes 20 minutes 🙄

I agree with the others regarding an emergency opticians appointment or hospital, however do you suffer from migraines @FindingMyWayThrough1 ?

Mine changed from normal migraines to ocular ones very suddenly.

I would to go A&E OP, I had something similar when I had a detached retina, needed to be operated on the next day.

Definitely need to go to A&E - hopefully you’re on your way now. Standard one is fine if there isn’t a specific Eye Hospital near you.

This could be an emergency.

When I saw an eye consultant years ago with (what proved to be) a minor problem, he warned me if I had symptoms similar to yours I was to ring him at home whatever the time that night and he would meet me at the hospital.

Hopefully your problem will be sorted soon.

Could it be an onset of a migraine.

Your local eye hospital should have an eye casualty l emergency bit?

A&E. A detachment of both retinas would be unlikely. This could be a warning sign of diabetes, you could be on the verge of hyperglycaemia.

DH recently had rather sudden fogginess, that was due to high pressure as a result of the onset of uveitis. He initially went to local A&E who completely misdiagnosed as some sort of infection but then he went to specsavers who measured his pressures and made him an emergency referral at the county eye unit. If he hadn’t been treated asap the pressure could have destroyed his optic nerve.

hopefully the op has already gone to get checked.

I had something similar but in one eye only. Optician referred me to a specialist and it took steroids, drops and many opinions to diagnose a viral infection that caused abrasion on my cornea!!
not such a huge deal in the end but tedious though ultimately a relief that it wasn’t more serious.
you’d probably get an appointment with an optician quickest and they will know what you should do next

It was a migraine

Hope you’re feeling better now.

That's embarrassing. 😁 Was it one of those ocular migraines with wiggly lines and zigzags but no pain? I thought there was something very wrong the first time I had one of them too.

Not sure why you’d say it’s ‘embarrassing’?
unexpected disturbance to vision is very validly worrying and needs to be taken seriously. And I’ve never had a migraine but they sound grim.

@ErrolTheDragon alright lighten up! You can't see the funny side in OP being told it was a serious emergency get to Moorfields NOW and then having to come back and admit it was a migraine?

Like I said, I've had these migraines and panicked myself at first.

Glad it was "just" a migraine. I agree that no one would think OP was wrong to get this checked if she never had a migraine with these symptoms before. It could be a number of serious conditions so it's very important to seek medical help.