did weldiing kill my eyes
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im in a welding class in school and theres a welder just about every wear you look around the shop a lot of them not protected very well at all so I have inevitably been hit with other peoples welds when going to grab a pair of mig pliers or just looking for a open welder.(my class is large so its often hard to find one)Many were out of the corner of my eye and from a fair distance and once right in my eye when I turned around after putting on a a pair of gloves and someone un expectedly struck an arc I have also flashed my self a few times due to being new to welding 4 to be exact. I never got flash burn, though I am worried about my retina being damaged. I also used a cutting torch a few times with no shade protection. I also used a low amp plasma cutter one time for 3-4 minuets to cut thin metal with no protection as again I wasn't aware it was important(till I looked stuff up later that day) and no one else in the class ever used one.
Now I have some vision things that im not sure are from my astigmatism getting worse, damage, or if there normal and I just never noticed it before. here they are
1.One thing is that I look at bright text on a dark back ground on a computer it has a tint bit of a glow around it, for example white text on black background, dark blue, ect, and if a look at it farther away I see a copy of the text below the original.
2.another is if I look at something white on a screen.(phone, computer, ect) it doesn't look completely white it looks like it has some slightly darker spots same both eyes
3.I did one of those amsler grid tests and some of the squares looked like a light grey color and not white in both eyes.
4.things that emit light seem to streak more than I remember, they streak more especially when I go to blink or look at them at an angle and not straight on.
5. I get after images from reading text on my phone and I see different colored diagonal lines after images in my vision when I look at a computer or TV.
I went to one optometrist and he looked at my eye for a fairly short amount of time said I would be ok and sent me on my way. I'm going to another next week as I'm not convinced I'm ok. I'm freaking out cause I'm a huge gamer and I love my dog and if I ever have kids I want to be able to see them well. I don't think I could keep on living with bad vision id rather die. what do you guys think, did I just mess up my vision or not?
Update: the darker spots on my computer are due to a dirty monitor
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robert50059 nurturantquasar
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Going to see another optometrist will get you the same results.
Go see an ophthalmologist. That said I think you might be a little overly paranoid and it might be effecting your perception of it. In the meantime till your appointment put in lubricating eye drops regularly every 4 hours daily [Don't stop] and see if that changes your perception of any those things your noticing. The more you fixate on a problem the more you might you will be stressing your eyes and not blinking.
Book appointment stop thinking about it and put those drops in. This way if the doctor just tells you its dry eye or eye fatigue you can tell her that you did these steps.
Trust me as someone who has really bad eye issues that your not there. Not a doctor but if you had damage, you would have damage. Permanent spot in vision, sensitivity to light, etc. Its not a disease or anything so worrying about progressive failure/worsening shouldn't really be a thing.