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Posted 2/8/2019 2:44 AM (GMT 0)
when I take off my glasses or contacts I feel something iswrong with my left eye. Both my eyes are -2.00. Then I placed my hand over my right eye to check my left eye vision and it is significantly more blurry than my right!! My vision hasn’t changed in over fifteen years it’s always the same! I am so worried could this be a brain tumor/ms? Could one eye get worse just like that? My prescription hasn’t changed in years! I’m so scared please help me
Posted 2/8/2019 11:23 AM (GMT 0)
Time for eye test. Your eyes can change...as I have learnt. Recent new glasses. I live with diabetic retinapath and one blown...recently after a eye check I learnt the better eye is displaying astigmatism...blurry...I thought just the retinapathy playing up...nope...new glasses needed. HT
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Posted 2/8/2019 11:40 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you so much for replying to me and I didn’t get one bit of sleep last night!!! I was up googling alll the possible things that can be wrong with me, of course all scary!!

Could one eye just like that get worse while the other one stays? If both got worse I wouldn’t be as worried...If the fix is a new pair of glasss I’ll be relieved but I’m so scared I have something potentially more serious some sort of progressive eye disease
Posted 2/8/2019 5:13 PM (GMT 0)
Hi there! Sorry to hear your sight is not right. The only thing you can do is call an eye doctor or primary care doctor, get it checked out and get some answers! Let us know how it goes!
Posted 2/8/2019 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
LMD,

I am sorry you are feeling this worry atm. I know how this feels...and it is so difficult not to catastrophize.

Remember that this is part of your HA. Thinking the worst case scenario...when in fact, it's not the reality...only a manifestation of the health anxiety.

Try to keep in mind how many times in the past you have been scared of something that turned out to be nothing. smile This time will very likely be the same!

Make the appointment, and keep your positive mantras on a loop in your head!

S.C.
Posted 2/8/2019 5:42 PM (GMT 0)
It is absolutely possible for eyes to change at different rates when it comes to needing glasses for correction. During a standard eye test when I was in the third grade (50 years ago!), I was found to need glasses, but only for my left eye. I was nearsighted in only my left eye. For many years, the lens on the left side of my glasses was corrective, but the right eye was essentially just clear glass. My right eye eventually also developed nearsightedness, but never caught up to the left eye. My eyeglasses lens on the left is considerably thicker than the right lens. My eyes still do not always need a change in prescription at the same rate. (Although they both needed bifocals at the same time!)

Human beings are not perfectly symmetrical!
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