blind spot in one eye
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Hello, I'm a 52 year old male. Right now I have a gray spot at the upper right side of the center vision of my left eye. It all started one month ago, I took an international long flight, in order to reduce the timezone effect, I forced myself to watch video for 8 hours, and was really tired when I arrived. The second day, I noticed my upper left eyelid felt very heavy and twitched a lot. One day later I felt pain with both my eye balls and it lasted one day. And then one day later, both my eyes became extremely dry/red/itchy, so I used some eye drops. This lasted a few days. Since it didn't affect my vision, I continued doing my research/reading with cellphone and computer. And then one morning, I felt uncomfortable with my vision when under the sun. I suddenly discovered I had a blind spot close to the center of my left eye. So I went to see the eye doctor and took lots of exams(incl. OCT, blood vessel angiography, vision field test etc). The doctor did not find anything wrong with the main blood vessel and he could not conclude on the root cause. He suspected it was caused by either an infection or a tiny clot in a small blood vessel(since I have high cholesterol level) right behind the retina. He said the swelling on the retina might be relieved a bit after taking medications he prescribed.
It has been three weeks since then. Right now I get tired very easily as my right eye has to compensate for that, and it becomes very difficult to use computer this way.
Does anyone have any experience or insight in the cause? thanks in advance.
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mjcg michael86602
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Hi Michael! When I first saw the title of your post I wanted to scream get to an ophthalmologist pronto! But I see you've already had testing completed (smart thinking!). I'm so sorry that you're going through this. I would actually revisit your eye doctor, and if necessary possibly seek a second opinion. Trust your body, and rest when you can (if you can). Maybe someone in our forum has had a similar experience and will share that with you. Until then, take care and keep us posted!
michael86602 mjcg
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Dear mjcg, thanks a lot for the advice and the comforting words. I greatly appreciate it.
Michael