Eye damage? Seeing my nose in vision?

[Barnabus97]

Over these past few weeks, I've started seeing my nose in the right side of my vision, it just came on all of a sudden, and it's causing me anxiety. I can also see the bridges of my nose when I look left and right.
I went to see on optometrist and opthamologist, I've had my eyes checked, all the tests and my eyes are 100% healthy.
I know it's not caused by anxiety since there have been days I've been really happy but I still notice it is there.
I'm only a 17 year old girl, and it's really distracting me and getting me down - I'm worried it's gonna give me more problems in the future such as stopping me learning to drive.
I've had a bad bout of labrynthitis these past few weeks, which has caused sickness and vertigo, it has been very distressing. The eye doctor I saw said it is not linked to this.
I'm just worried that the signals in my brains are messed up, or it could be nerve damage, all the doctors are doing is pinning this down on anxiety.

[JohnHaganMD]

OCD can be helped both by medication and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) which I have found extremely helpful for many of my patients and use myself. Ask your psychiatrist about it.  CBT also lends itself to home study and "book therapy" (bibliotherapy)   Check out MIND OVER MOOD  a very helpful workbook by Dennis Greenberger PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD.  Best of luck

JCH MD

[Ngcebo]

I'm ana Third year Engineering student, i keep on seeing the sarrounding when i'm trying to focus, this gives me a large amount of stress, it's like my mind is disturbed, i really need help, sometimes i feel like killing myself

[RicoS]

I have see an ophthalmologist and there was nothing wrong with my eyes so I have an appointment with a psychiatrist because I also think it is another OCD thing that came up which my brain will not let go of.
The wanted to put me on Lexapro a year ago for the OCD, but I did not want to take any meds, but this has gone on for a year now changing everytime and this "Seeing nose in vision" is very disturbing to say the least.

I do not panick over it anymore, but my vision is very disturbed and it annoys me very much. I do not wear glasses, but when I put glasses on with normal glass I do not have the symptoms that much because the glasses block my nose. But if I do that than it is a compulsion and I will stay in flight or fight mode never letting my brain dealing with it again.

So in my understanding I should do ERP (Expose Response Prevention) together with medication......this OCD has been going on far to long now.

Thank you for your advice to see a psychiatrist !
Regards
Rico

[JohnHaganMD]

Anxiety and OCD are often helped by medication, cognitive behavior therapy and treatment by a psychiatrist. With that degree of incapacitation I strongly suggest you discuss with a psychiatrist

JCH MD

[Ngcebo]

How to get those medications?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

You have to be under the care of a MD psychiatrist.

[RicoS]

I hope it will subside soon though and I will stop wasting my time on it  because it will make matters worse

[RicoS]

@JohnHaganMD
Thank you for your response on this. I have it since dec 5 2015 ...We just got home from doing shopping and my , wife and son made jokes about our noses and ...there it was I could see my nose....I am very OCD ...had the blinking, breathing , tongue to big for mouth , swallowing etc and now I am 100% focused on this. I had 2 panick attacks yesterday because of this, but now it all settled down and I realize it is the OCD and anxiety that keep me focus on it. I had a depression in the beginning of 2015 and than the sensorimotor OCD also started. The nose thing hit me so hard because I did not think it was anxiety, but now I understand it is. My anxiety level is very since beginning of the year so  that explains a lot.

[Moha1991]

hello I read your story. since 8 months I also see my nose on my visual field. your problem has disappeared?

[JohnHaganMD]

Okay those are by far the most important tests. The symptoms now are driven by anxiety and compulsion so you should move on and enjoy life.  If this is typical of other things in your life (anxiety) and its not getting better in the coming weeks you may want to discuss with your parents and physician about directing your efforts to working on the anxiety level. It is common for anxious people to seize on something like this and "floaters" is another extremely common anxiety producing eye symptom.

JCH MD

[keven1913]

i also have the same problem with seeing my nose i tryed you methed and it dident work

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

be sure you  have seen an Eye MD ophthalmologist to be sure you eye exam is normal. If your obsession continues consider seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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