A ? for my intelligent friends

[saveone]

I had my eye exam 6 months ago.  At the time I was told my vision without my glasses was 20/200.  I asked the doc if that was bad?  Boy did she laugh.

I choose at that time to get contacts.  My near sight was still slightly off but with 1.0 reading glasses I could read 20/20 out of both eyes.  

Six months later the vision in my right eye has crashed.  I am having to use a 1.75  pair of glasses to read.  I have blurry vision in that eye, my right eye  I have mild but irritating pain behind the eye and the eyeball itself feels weird.  I am always conscious of it. It feel like it is larger than the other.  Does that make sense?  I find myself blinking or rubbing the eye to try to clear my vision or I say without thinking "my eye hurts".  I have had 3 headaches in the past week.  The first I have had in a long time.  They are on that side and over and behind the eye.

I made an appt with my ophthalmologist.  I can't see her until the 10th.  I had to have a referrel for my ins to pay so I picked that up at my regular GP appt.

Today i was looking at the referral and it says "possible ON, blurry vision".  I never thought about it being ON so here is my question.

Many of you have had ON.  Does what I have described sound like ON?

Thanks for your opinion and I hope all of you are having a great weekend, terry

[wadeheather]

Wow, we could almost write eachother's posts.

Ditto.

Heather

[PastorDan]

Terry, I've no idea if it's ON or not, but most of it sounds familiar to me.  So far, the docs have given me no explanation but "an odd form of migraine," but I think that's a clever way of saying "I don't have a clue, and don't want to bother finding one.  Here's a pill; come back in six months."

[meg321]

I am always told that ON comes with double vision..Its very frustrating.

meg

[sllowe]

Hey Terry,

I wish I could for sure that it's the ON, but just so hard to know. Pain and blurry and complete loss are some of the symptoms. The headaches sound reasonable considering the change in vision.

Hope you optha is good!

ttys,
shell

[meg321]

Hi terry,

All of a sudden this year my eyes got bad, I went to an opthamoligist (sp?) and he says i have cateracts  which was not found by my normal eye doc, but i still have pain behind my eyes and constant headaches and my eyes are blurry now, which might be normal with cateracts..My question was it came on so fast and it usually is a slower process.

who knows ......?

meg