Rather Urgent re eye problem - can anyone advise please?

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DH has short sight and wears glasses. This week he has started to complain that he cannot focus on a tv or computer screen using both eyes, so he closes one , but now what is happening is that if he looks through either eye separately the image is stable, but then when he tries stereo vision he gets double or fractured sight. After a while this settles down. Does anyone know what this might be please? he is due to fly on holiday skiing on Sunday and I can't get an optician's appointment until Saturday morning. I would really love to know if anyone can put my mind at rest please?

lol bgd.
went today to the hsop and the steroids put my blodd pressure up

The drug can cause high blood pressure and strokes....
so they decided not to give it

so now off to docs to get some antihypertensives

and think again in2 weeks.

am leaning towards laser now- just to get it sorted.
i knwo will cause more damage, but at least it'll be over and i won't be worried about long term side effects

I'd get your dh to go to hosp prior to sat tbh.... but i do hope he gets it sorted soon.

i agree with oopsagain... better to see someone tomorrow.

How's he doing?
did he get an earlier app?

Sorry to hear that Oops, I really do feel for you.
As you say if you go with laser you will know where you stand and that is easier to cope with in some ways.
You will get used to it one day, it is a matter of acceptance by the brain and by yourself.
Catch up soon.

Cannot get dh to take this seriously

he's probably scared.

you can phone NHS 24/Direct on behalf of someone else for advise you know....

when i rang moorfields to say i had a small amount of vison loss and double vision- they asked me to come down immediately.

It may be something simple- but your sight is so precious it is worth taking seriously.
Get him to read the thread.

I am currently not sure if i will be blind in one eye due to the problems I have got- i'd jhave felt dreadful if i'd left it and not got any help sooner.

HTH and good luck!

have you called NHS direct?

best to get clinical advise...

goodness - I wouldn't fly for quids, OR go ski-ing with this problem! Has he not seen the news at all? A little bump on the head when ski-ing can cause serious injury and death - he might have an underlying problem that could be hugely aggravated by flying/bumps on the head. Has he a death wish?

I don't think this can be taken TOO seriously! silly man. Hope you get him sorted.

Could it be astigmatism?
I have it, and I wear glasses. When I'm looking at my tv or computer I notice the lines overlap or don't join. If I move my glasses around it's fixed! Could be that he just needs new glasses.

did he go to the appointment today?

I suggest an opticians apointment as soon as possible as there may be some underlying cause e.g Diabetes or Thyroid problems. If you explain the symptoms an optician should be able to fit you in as an emergency

How did he get on?
I hope it all went well.

jings i hate when people don't update... hopefully he's ok.

oh i know.
i've been thinking about him this weekend.

i have a life. i'm just a good multi tasker

Sorry sorry everyone ,RL intervening. DH went for appointment and doc says he has to be referred for tests, looks like muscle weakness but needs scans etc. DH has gone skiing, and called me today saying he has had a terrible headache for last 36 hours with upset tum - altitude or worse? In the meantime spooky thing happened , I woke up at 6am Sunday morning with the word myasthenia gravis in my hearing and printed on my eyeballs: I googled it some hours later when I couldn't stp it nagging at me and found that it is a progressive palsy and there is an ocular form - but I swear I had never, ever heard of it before Sunday morning in bed. Have decided that at very least it means that DH has got to ask to be tested for it, as website I found said that the ocular version is often misdiagnosed and not spotted for two or more years.

Tbh am very worried indeed, thanks for support and really sorry I hadn't made it back to update

oh bless you- no problem.

Glad he got to his appt.
Strangly my friend has been tested for ocular myasthenia at one point. he was getting eye strainand distirted vision. It was unconlusive.

how strange that you came up with it.... i don't know much abotu the ocular version.
but i do think that it's prob ok for him to be away if it is that- it won't get specifically worse.

I ahd terrible heade=aches at the beginning of my problem. the brain has to work so hard to make sense of it all.

Poor you, worrying at home.
Hope you feel better soon- when is he back?
Hope the next set of appts come through soon.