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Eyes crossing involuntarily
What is going on? My eyes started crossing involuntarily.
My first experience was at work on a break, I was walking with a co worker and suddenly both eyes crossed and frightened me I could not see and had to alert her and we sat down. It did not go away seemed like forever but most likely 30 seconds. Never had another until this morning, was reading and got up to get something from a file cabinet when I bent down a little my right eye crossed. I closed the crossed eye and opened my other and could see clearly to sit down and relax for it to subside. I did not have a headache with it nor anything else.
I am perplexed by this because 1. it is frightening 2. dont know why it is happening 3. dont know when it will happen again.
This discussion is related to Sudden Cross-eyed Vision NOT double vision.
My first experience was at work on a break, I was walking with a co worker and suddenly both eyes crossed and frightened me I could not see and had to alert her and we sat down. It did not go away seemed like forever but most likely 30 seconds. Never had another until this morning, was reading and got up to get something from a file cabinet when I bent down a little my right eye crossed. I closed the crossed eye and opened my other and could see clearly to sit down and relax for it to subside. I did not have a headache with it nor anything else.
I am perplexed by this because 1. it is frightening 2. dont know why it is happening 3. dont know when it will happen again.
This discussion is related to Sudden Cross-eyed Vision NOT double vision.
This happened to me this morning. I was cleaning out my car and all of a sudden my right eye felt like it was crossing and my vision out of that one eye became blurry and it made me disoriented. Did you ever find out what it was?
This same thing happened to me yesterday. Driving on the freeway and out of nowhere my vision became blurred. I tried quickly shaking my head to snap out of it but no luck. I pulled to the side of the road and continued to shake my head and open & shut my eyes but my vision was still blurry. It felt more like it was cross eyed than blurry. I covered one eye at a time to see if it was a problem with one or the other. Each time i covered an eye i was able to see clearly ... but uncovered i became cross eyed again. It finally shook off after 1 minute or so. For the next 20 minutes my eyes felt a bit unstable, kinda like they were weary maybe. They feel fine today.
I'm 55, male, active and very heathly, no meds and blood pressure is normal. Headaches occasionally but nothing serious. My first thought was a mini stroke but don't think so after reading the original blog and comments. A couple people have mentioned MS, my grandmother had MS. Man, i was scared though, luckily it was daylight and i could make out a path to the shoulder ... nighttime might have been a different story. . I'll keep this blog posted if it happens again.
I'm 55, male, active and very heathly, no meds and blood pressure is normal. Headaches occasionally but nothing serious. My first thought was a mini stroke but don't think so after reading the original blog and comments. A couple people have mentioned MS, my grandmother had MS. Man, i was scared though, luckily it was daylight and i could make out a path to the shoulder ... nighttime might have been a different story. . I'll keep this blog posted if it happens again.
I have experienced this since June '05 while on a road trip it just hit me. It use to come every few months and last a few weeks but my most recent "attack" as I'll call it has been going on for over 3 months now. This is my experience...when it first started, I could always tell when it was going to happen because my temples would pulse a few times and then my eyes would feel like they were crossing, wiggling and spinning. Then while my eyes are doing this, it felt like a wave starting from my eyes and would go to the back of my head and come back forward a couple times then the eyes and then ending at my temples. Also, it felt like I would "black out" for just a split second and it's very hard to focus (especially if driving it feels like you're swaying) . Myself and other people have looked at my eyes while this happens and they don't appear to be moving. Over the years it's come on more frequent and lasted longer. But this most recent experience started out like all the rest but now it seems to be just more focused around my eyes and closing one eye helps sometimes but then sometimes it don't. I am in the process of being diagnosed with MS but as of right now, not enough evidence for anything definate. I've even had a VER evoked eye test and nothing showed up. I do have ovoid plaques in/on left and right frontal lobes. Would love to know what this is as my neuro has no clue at this time!
I had this happen a few yrs back and it stayed that way for around 30 days, give or take. Eye Dr had temporary prisms fit into my glasses so I could see straight and go about my life as best I could. Now it is happening again, for a few seconds to a minute at a time. It is scary and it is hard to think rationally during the episode.
I have the same problem, I'm 23 years old, I have headaches every day and I have migraines with aura, but I have perfect eye sight. It's a very bothersome feeling, it really is like if you're going cross-eyed, but I've looked at myself in the mirror while it happens and I've also had friends look at me when it happens and I don't really go cross eyed, it just feels like it. If I cover one eye I can see clearly, it also seems to help if I press my thumb against my forehead between my eyebrows, and when I do not fear of my head exploding because of a migraine, hitting my forehead also helps.
I will keep a record, it hasn't happened since, and I just hope it never does. I didn't have any headache before, during, or after the incident. Hope you are doing well, and thanks for your quick response. Theresa :)
This started happening to me regularly. It stopped when I started taking a powdered collagen in my coffee. Collagen is supposed to replace the collagen you lose with age. I never expected it to fix this problem that had been going on for over a year. Surprise surprise, didn't need a doctor.
dlupo: start working with the ophthalmologist in your insurance plan to get authorization for an out of plan referral to a neuro-ophthalmologists. Many insurance plans do not have every type of medical or sugical subspecialist. When doctors in the plan can't handle the problem there is a protocol for getting them to authorize a referral to a doctor (in your case a neuro-ophthalmologist) out of the plan. It always requires that one of the doctors in the plan recommend the referral. If you are in your late 30's or early-mid 40's your symptoms could be due to "presbyopia" and indicate a need for reading glasses or bifocals.
I am having the same type of problem with my eyes not being able to focus & see correctly. Right eye appears/feels like it is crossing. Have to push & try to purposely focus/strain to see. Very frustrating as I work in medical field; use computers all the time ,as well as in school, making it very difficult to function. It is intermittent in nature; exacerbated by chronic dry eyes. Use drops, ointments & have had tear duct plugs. Opthamologist doesn't know what it is; recommended going to a Neuro-Opthamologist. Having difficulty finding one in my insurance network.I am frustrated & perplexed.
I have been crosseyed for a few days now... I can see up close just fine but distances are doubled. no matter how hard I try I cant focus. wasn't as bad last night, but this morning it was awful.... wonder if it is sinus pressure??
Yesterday, my husband and I went shopping . He decided that I drivedrive. A few minutes later ,all of a sudden my eyes seemed to go crossed and I was in heavy traffic. I tried very hard to keep focused on the side of the road . But it was difficultand almost made me disoriented. Fortunately,it lasted only about a minute. This is not the only time this has happened while driving. But it has also happened at home just walking from room to room. It seems to last a little longer each time. I had lasic eye surgery in 2001and I am now 58 years old.
I have had the feeling of cross eyes but not actually crossing, vision is clear when i close one eye. Had appt with eye dr, prescribed prisms on glasses...aged related, muscle weakness. I had also been experiencing peripheral vision issues, bumping head frequently, but tested positive for depth perception problems. My dr is clarke newman in dallas.
I am 37 and have worn glasses for years. I am nearsighted. Over the past few years I have experienced crossed eyes. My right eye actually does cross (my husband confirmed this). This only happens when I look far away, I can see close up fine. If I cover one eye it corrects the problem. Sometimes it lasts for a whole day. Sometimes it lasts for a few hours. I can go for a few days without incident or sometimes it will happen every day for a few days. I have spoken to my eye Dr. in the past and she prescribed glasses that had prisms. This helped a little but I would still experience the problem. Lately it has been happening every day. Today I woke up cross eyed and have been like this all day. It is very frustrating. I feel pressure in my temples and between my eyebrows. This is really ruining my life. Any advise would be appreciated.
"...Won't seek medical attention. Doctors mostly don't know crap."
Wow, your MCAT scores (you can Google it) must have been off the charts!
Wow, your MCAT scores (you can Google it) must have been off the charts!
i had heart surgery in 2013 and a couple weeks after surgery mine started doing the same thing. i was driving the first 2 times. i went to the eye doctor and he said everything was fine and that i need to see a neurologist. i have ignored it for a while but it has been doing it again and i getting a referal to the neurologist now.
It just happened to me. Eyes crossed involuntarily during an argument with my wife. Crossed vision, dizziness until I closed one eye. Won't seek medical attention. Doctors mostly don't know crap.
I have had this happen to me about 11 years ago. I had heart surgery and weeks after when I was recovering I had the crossed eyes events which lasted maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute. Had MRI and nothing found. Went to eye specialist and he believed these were happening due to stress post surgery. Have only recently had 3 more events like this, crossed eyes, cant see straight , first time I was dizzy, the next 2 days my eyes felt like they were going to start crossing so I rubbed them, closed them and tried to relax. Freaking me out, scared this will happen when I am driving or at work with a client.
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If i lock my vision for a few seconds, so they like freeze, my eyes also start to squint (I hope i am saying the correct word now) but then they go outside and not crossing.
Don't worry, the sudden eye-crossing thing happened to me - once while driving! - but it can be fixed! I had experienced it once before, a little over a decade ago. Apparently it was not a one-time thing. See a neuro-ophthalmologist if possible (may be pediatric, but it doesn't matter), as this condition worsens as you age. It was eye muscle surgery for me, for strabismus, specifically esotropia. Another term for it is 'squint'. I literally just had the surgery done days ago. I've been aware of my "wandering" eyes since I was a young teen but only *I* really noticed; but I hated having to work on "hiding" it from others due to the stigma of crossed eyes. It always occurred when over-tired or, as I discovered at a later age, intoxicated. Now that I'm in my mid-forties, things aren't as elastic as they used to be, and when my eyes recently crossed on the road (I was not tired, and definitely was not intoxicated) I made an appt immediately after researching extensively online. I waited weeks to get in, but indeed chose the right type of specialist. My first appointment was a couple hours long! It was an intense, but completely non-invasive exam, (though my eyes did get dilated at some point and I needed a ride home). Then I met the doctor, who knew exactly what was going on and had done >1000 surgeries for this condition, mainly on babies, but on tons of adults as well. [Important to know: He ruled out doing scans for brain tumors, but only because I've been aware of the problem for decades, and never developed double-vision.] So I took the plunge. I was super scared as I hate hospital settings, but didn't need to be. It went well with minimal discomfort, though I definitely needed assistance at home the rest of the day and the next. I actually had two surgeries in one eye as that one was slightly off-center (hypotropia)! Bonus: My headaches should decrease in number. My specialist/surgeon was David Bruce Granet, MD, located at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. I'm told that patients from all over the world come to him. If you can't get here, his office can probably refer you to another specialist closer to you. Good luck :)
I am now 22 years old and I have had this since at least 14 if not younger. for me it is so sudden lasts maybe a second if that they cross and are back to normal. its completely involuntary and came on out of no where. when I was really little my brother taught me to cross my eyes I did it a lot and so I figured maybe it was from that lol. I am just curious why my eyes do this.
I am no expert. I just would like to share my brother's experience. He was 27 at that time. He was driving when his right eye involuntarily crossed. No other symptoms. We took him to a neurologist and after a series of tests, they found out he had a tumor in the brain. Unfortunately, he did not survive the brain surgery. He passed away 15 years ago on 19 October 1998. May his soul rest in peace.
WOW, that is exactly what the neurologist asked me to do close one eye and see if i could see and have someone see if they are really crossing!!! and then I was to report to him. I advise you to see your PCP to get a referral to a Neurologist or just go see one!
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