Advice: Vision very clear after being short-sighted for years!!

[adozenroses]

Hi. Woke up this morning and realised I could see everything very clear. Usually things are blurred. Naturally checked to see if I had left my contacts in, but I hadn't.

What could have happened?? Is this normal??

No idea!! I am very very though.

Im SOO

Maybe you went for lazar treatment and forgot!

how strange!

as a shortsighted girl myself I am admittedly jealous, but it sounds very odd.
I have read one article about a girl whose short-sightedness improved after she had chickenpox, which spread to her left eye and left a scar on her cornea. The scar tissue was thinner than normal corneal tissue so corrected the 'bulge' that causes shortsightedness - the same effect as laser treament.

The thing is, all sorts of things can change the pressure on your eyeball and hence the shape of the lens, affecting your vision.
I'd ring the Moorfields Eye Hospital helpline, which has specialist nurses to advise you - 020 7566 2345 - or if you're in London you could go to their walk-in clinic.

I would go see someone. The only serious illness I know of that causes eye changes makes them worse (diabetes) but still, you should get this checked! (I'm not saying this because I'm jealous, although I certainly am jealous.)

I have just rung the doctors and have an appointment this morning, so I'll see what they say.

Hopefully it's just a wierd phenomenon and I'll have nice clear vision from now on

If it's a good phenomenon and we could actively repeat it please let us know! Am very .

hope your doctor knows just how unusual it is - they'll get a nice juicy Lancet paper out of you if they play their cards right!

you haven't been eating tons of blueberries or bilberries lately?

good point Gloworm, but no real proof that bilberries do any good yet - paper \link{http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14711439&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum\here}. Besides, any effect they do have would be on night vision ie the rods in your retina, not the cones.

Am facsinated by this aDozenRoses - feel like I'm in an episode of House and have got out all my old medical textbooks... you must let us know how you get on!

Been to docs. She was baffled!! Checked as much as she could, but couldn't figure out why this has happened. So she is sending me for different tests, etc - just to make sure everything is ok. She did say for me to go and see my optician and check that everything is ok. So, I may go at the weekend.

Think the doctors will end up doing all kinds of scary tests on me,like an episode of House - as long as I don't get House as a doctor I'll be fine

Gloworm, I don't like blueberries and have never eaten bilberries, I don't think!! My dh thinks this is really freaky. He reckons I always have to be different

happened to me too after 13 years of wearing glasses. I put it down to having had bad SPD in my first pregnancy which loosened all my muscles up.

Glad it's not a symptom of anything terrible!

Let us know what the optician says at the weekend, and check for mystery rashes / flea bites / ulcers etc just in case - one always seems to show up in House...

wow, pixie. Have your eyes stayed clear now, or did they return to normal again??

How bizarre!! Still very but will now live in hope that I will wake one day with good eye sight!

Maybe someone's been praying for ya!

Great to hear you're ok though.

How are you doing, 12roses? Seen that optician yet?

Short sight does often get better as you age - because we all develop age-related long sight which compensates for it. But that would normally happen gradually. Only mention it because Aloha posted a similar thread and hers did turn out to be age-related. Do you think you are just so used to your glasses that you hadn't realised you could see without them, or is that a really daft thing to suggest?

Anyway, I would second the advice to see your optician.

Hi all. Have had a horrible weekend. Woke up on Saturday morning to my left eye being almost blind!!! I also had a terrible headache, so I stayed in bed as I couldn't really focus on anything.

Sunday, my eye was a bit better, so went to see optician. He found that the back of my left eye seems a bit swollen, and this is causing my vision to change. Been to doctor again this morning who has prescribed strong ibuprofen, and she is thinking it cold be to do with migraines, but I am waiting for a referral to the hospital for tests.

The good thing is, my eyes don't seem too bad today. Hopefully, the tablets will reduce the swelling and I'll be back to normal again.

How's it going now?

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