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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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My girlfriend's eyesight complaint
Alright, so for the past couple of weeks, what has caused GF's anxiety is that she says her eyesight is F'd up. I ask her to describe it and she says it's wierd. She described it as, "When you look at a light for a while and look away, you still can kind of see that light. Well she sees those things, not as distinct, but thats her best description. The eyedoctor last night switched her contact lenses but said that the prescription was spot on. This morning though she says it's still the same and causing her headaches. What is the next step? A doctor doctor? any guesses?
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Did the eye doctor check for Glaucoma?
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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I assume so. He did all of the normal test, dilation and all that stuff. Checked her retina, etc.
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Sounds like she might need an Ophtamologist rather than an Optometrist.
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Seconded.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY
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I've had this sensation all my life, my eye doctors *6 of them* have all to the man told me its a natural reaction of teh retina, its like when you look at the sun and you still see the spot for awhile after ward, but I've always gotten the same effect from any light source.
They told me there was nothing out of the ordinary and that most people see this phenomina and just forget its there or happening. |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Huh. I know what you're talking about because I get the same thing. Any light source leaves an after-image of itself on my eyesight. I always thought it was just a normal reaction. |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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Same here. I assumed this happened to everyone. Interesting.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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Same here.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I still assume this... but it just bugs some people, and not the rest of us. |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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This happens to me as well, and I've never worried about it. However, if your GF is worried, I would recommend you take her to an opthalomologist for a complete eye exam.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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This is the first time I've even considered the possiblity that everyone didn't get the after images. It is strange that Flasch's gf would just notice them now. I've never seen an eye doctor because (*knock on wood*) I still have 20/20 vision. So, if there is something wrong (which I doubt), I would be interested to hear about it.
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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this isn't normal? i am pretty sure everything described in this thread sounds normal. |
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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wasn't it in Top Gun that they said the best way to identify the jets shown in a quick flash by the projector was to simply close your eyes right as the picture came on? Meaning the picture stays on your retina and you can still sort of see it with your eyes closed... Maybe I dreamed it though...
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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FROGMAN!!! Wake UP!!! You're dreaming again!!! WAKE UP!!!
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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thanks Buzzbee, rough Friday afternoon...
FM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Dude, the problem is not with your girlfriends eyes, the problem is with her anxiety disorder. Deal with that and the eye problem will go away,
or she has glaucoma. |
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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she says she used to have the light thing and thought it normal, but now "its different". She has a difficult time describing it.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Have you laced your semen with a psychotropic, perhaps? |
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: NJ
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Is she depressed cause she can't see the computer not working?
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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bukkkake!
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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she's getting depressed cuz she can't figure out what's wrong and I can't help her except to say, "cowboy up." I just found an opthamalogist on our health insurer so when her's kicks in Ill send her off.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Stare at the four black dots in the center of the image for 30 - 60 seconds. Then quickly close your eyes and look at something bright (like a lamp or a window with sunlight coming through it). You should see a white circle with an image inside it.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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This is going to be like some Twilight Zone episode, where everyone on FOFC starts to actually notice those little eye light things for the first time, and we all go insane.
Thanks, Flasch.
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This whole phenomena brings back memories of a train of thought I once had.
What if everything we see is not absolute, but relative. Take for example the color red. Most everyone who sees it will say that it is red. But those who are colorblind cannot say for sure. Is it because they can see something else in the color that everyone else misses, or are they missing something everyone else sees? Another more abstract example would be beauty. You can select any object or person that is regarded as beautiful, and you will find people who will disagree. As above, are they seeing something more than others, or less than others? I got a headache of a magnitude greater than that of a slurpee brain freeze when I really sat down and thought about it.
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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I assume what she is discribing is an afterimage. This is normal and results from adaptation of various sensory neurons. Once you look away, the adaptation takes some time to wear off. You don't actually see the same stimulus, you see the inverse of the stimulus. So if you are looking at a blue light, you'll see a yellow afterimage. |
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Join Date: May 2001
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word. also about colors, what if you saw green as the green you know? GREEN. But someone sees your green as this color, but their whole life they have been taught it is green and feel it is green. when grabbing for the green crayon, it looks like this to them but they still know it as green. who would ever know? |
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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maybe a psychiatrist. She sounds like a hypochondriac. |
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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not by defiinition...she's just freaked. I told her to give it some time, with the newer lenses and see...
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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Hey Flasch, the similarities to my GF's problems are scary.
She says that hers started as an eyesight issue as well. One night, while driving, she said that the lines on the road to began to double up and she got the fish-bowl effect. That gave her the first attack. Ever since then, she has been taking medicine, but her eyesight can still bring it on. Ironically, people jump to conclusions and call her a hypocondriac also. Once again, if your GF has any questions, email them to me, and I'll ask my GF to answer them. GL man, Chris W. |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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i dunno if its normal for everyone, I kinda get what she describes and I never noticed it until a couple years back..main reason I dont like to drive at nite anymore which sucks cuz thats when im awake and always drove around comfortably then, but now the light from cars or street lights, I dont even hafta look at them directly as long as they're there my focus on te cars, road lines/barriers are not to where I feel comfortable driving..my focus is just OFF, I sometimes hafta head shake a second to refocus, I blink like a million times hoping its my contacts and they'll clear up but they just dont soo its my eyes..started getting this when I was diagnosed with the RA though..and thats supposed to make the white of your eyes swell up soo maybe its that with me
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Ill do that later today/tonight. Ill have her email you.
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Sounds good. I'll have my GF take a look. |
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Then it's just semantics. You could call this "table" for what it's worth and if you always see this color and were taught it was "table" then you are just calling it something different. It's no different than "those wacky Spanish speaking people" calling it verde. SI
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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Is she taking any medication? |
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Location: Jacksonville, FL
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birth control.
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I think you are misunderstanding his proposition. It isn't that someone calls Green "Table". It is that when you seen something that you consider to be Green it looks likt THIS to you. In this case the way you perceive Green is how I perceive Red. Because we consistently interpret the results we can communicate clearly. |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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I could be a reaction to it... I don't know. But I've heard of stranger things. And peoples bodies do change. |
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