Moving spot in BOTH EYES upon waking

[Richard418]

Six times in the past two weeks, upon waking from sleep, I have noticed a moving spot in both eyes. I first thought it was a spider moving across the white wall of the bedroom. So much so that I got out of bed to look for a shoe. The second time, I woke and saw it on the ceiling. Same thing; I rose and picked up a shoe to kill it, and then realized that there wasn't anything there. The third time, I lay still and watched it move, and looked back to the original place on the wall, and watched it cross again, with me following it. Two mornings later, seeing it again, recognizing it for a spot, I was following it again, sure it was a floater--but then I closed my right eye, and it was there, as before, moving across my vision; I opened the right eye and closed the left, and it was exactly the same, still moving the same way.

I went to an ophthalmologist, who thoroughly examined my eyes, and they are healthy. He said the phenomenon was "very unusual."  I have been on Toprol and Propaphenone for what my doctor called Nuisance Afib since late September of this past year. And I have regularly consumed wine in the evenings during that time. I had had several glasses of wine the night before the first occurrence; and the same was true of the second two occurrences. I cut out all wine, and there have been two occurrences now since then. The spot never appears except when coming out of sleep; and it never lasts longer than a few seconds. The last two times it was very much less solid-looking, it seemed to me, and smaller; and it doesn't seem to be lasting as long. But it moves exactly like a floater. I am experiencing a good deal of anxiety about this.

I'm sixty-four years old and am otherwise, as far as I know, quite healthy. During the nuisance Afib the Cardiac doctor said I have a very strong, healthy heart--no blockages of any kind, all valves open and operating properly, and no enlargement.

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

If it looks like a floater, acts like a floater it likely is a floater. Your anxiety is probably making your symtoms a lot worsek
JCH MD

[Richard418]

Hi,

Even though it is visible in both eyes alternately exactly the same? It never has lasted more than a few seconds; in fact the two mornings I thought it was a spider it was gone before I rose to look for something with which to kill it. I want to believe that if it was something serious it would be there all the time. Not exclusively upon waking from deep sleep. Can I trust that?

[Richard418]

Thank you for you time. I should have started with that.

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

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