First of all you need to see an ophthalmologist or eye specialist. Stress does not cuase blurry vision! It may be that you just have an underling long sightedness which gets worse when you are tired. this is very common and nothing to worry about. However it's important that you get it checked out.
1. to put your mind at ease, if it is just long sightedness you know you dont need to worry about it.
2. to correct the long sightedness. If uncorrected it can lead to headaches, migraines and visual symptoms such as momentary loss of peripheral vision and coloured lights in your eyes.
3. when the eye specialist looks in your eye they can sometimes see early signs of diabetes, raised blood pressure, raised intercranial pressure (pressure on your brain caused by a tumour etc) and a lot of other conditions
4. they can perform a visual field analysis which assesses your peripheral vision but also tells them if there are any problems in your brain along certain pathways
Secondly you need to check yourself for diabetes, you can normally get home kits to do this. It is unlikely that you would be getting these symptoms with undiagnosed diabetes, it would have to be fairly advanced but it is worth checking it out just to cross something else off the list. if it is diabetes you need to inform your doctor immediately so you can get treatment, this isn't something you can control without professional medical advice.
Thirdly try and get a blood pressure monitor. Pharmasists usually sell ones you can use at home quite chaply. if this is due to low blood pressure again you know there is nothing serious to worry about.
However having said that even if you think it is due to low blood pressure it is still important to get the doctors to check other stuff out as the blood pressure may be a sign of an underlying condition.
I personally would try and see an ophthalmologist first. if they cant find anything to worry about they can then refer you on to another specialist who they think might help. you often find that if a specialist has referred you rather than your family doctor the new specisalsit will pay a bit more attention to you.
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First of all you need to see an ophthalmologist or eye specialist. Stress does not cuase blurry vision! It may be that you just have an underling long sightedness which gets worse when you are tired. this is very common and nothing to worry about. However it's important that you get it checked out.
1. to put your mind at ease, if it is just long sightedness you know you dont need to worry about it.
2. to correct the long sightedness. If uncorrected it can lead to headaches, migraines and visual symptoms such as momentary loss of peripheral vision and coloured lights in your eyes.
3. when the eye specialist looks in your eye they can sometimes see early signs of diabetes, raised blood pressure, raised intercranial pressure (pressure on your brain caused by a tumour etc) and a lot of other conditions
4. they can perform a visual field analysis which assesses your peripheral vision but also tells them if there are any problems in your brain along certain pathways
Secondly you need to check yourself for diabetes, you can normally get home kits to do this. It is unlikely that you would be getting these symptoms with undiagnosed diabetes, it would have to be fairly advanced but it is worth checking it out just to cross something else off the list. if it is diabetes you need to inform your doctor immediately so you can get treatment, this isn't something you can control without professional medical advice.
Thirdly try and get a blood pressure monitor. Pharmasists usually sell ones you can use at home quite chaply. if this is due to low blood pressure again you know there is nothing serious to worry about.
However having said that even if you think it is due to low blood pressure it is still important to get the doctors to check other stuff out as the blood pressure may be a sign of an underlying condition.
I personally would try and see an ophthalmologist first. if they cant find anything to worry about they can then refer you on to another specialist who they think might help. you often find that if a specialist has referred you rather than your family doctor the new specisalsit will pay a bit more attention to you.
April 1, 2009 - 2:42amThis Comment
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