Vimbetin
05-06-16, 15:59
Hey,
I wonder is it possible that after a long course of really bad anxiety, stress and depression combined with even really traumatic events to yourself... Could lead to "permanent" vision changes or disturbances?
I've had a really rough, horrible and traumatic events in the last year(For 8 months in row now) in my life. Terrible things have happened to myself, had chronic infections, couple failed big surgeries etc. All this has led to worst anxiety and stress ever in my life, which has also led to dark depression and none of it has gone away, since everything in life is still going just as badly.
All of the sudden at the start of this year I developed tons of new symptoms that I never had before. I was sure I had caught some serious disease suddenly. All my doctors told me at that point was... It must be flu or something. I had developed horrible cold intolerance/feeling cold/shivering symptoms along with severe pains all over my body, including horrible headaches. Also feeling tired and powerless all the time. Along came disturbances in my senses, especially in my vision. Some weird strange and horrible smell disturbances as well, which have mostly passed by now. But the disturbed vision stays!
I've been plenty of times in the ER, taken MRI of the brain, had wide infection tests done, seen plenty of specialists(neurologist, infection doctors, eye doctors) etc.
Been suspected having hypothyroidism, Type 2 Diabetes, Lyme disease, MS Disease, CFS, Fibromyalgia or something in my eyes like Optic Neuritis.
They've found nothing, aside of finally getting Fibromyalgia diagnosis last week. Lyme isn't 100% ruled out either, but at this point it wont be treated "for nothing" anyway.
The visual symptoms resemble closely to Optic Neuritis, but I've seen 2 different Eye doctors that have said my eyes are 100% perfect. Even though you dont always see that disease from the eyes...
So starting from January this year along with all the other symptoms I've developed this 24/7 visual changes that havent gone away at all. If anything, they've gotten worse only by time.
My vision seems to have dimmed, as if everywhere lights have been turned down(outside and inside) and contrasts are totally messed up. All colors look washed out and lifeless. My vision is more close to black/white sight than full vibrant color sight. Everything looks dark and "dead" often. Outside world may look really "grey" a lot of time, even that I know it really shouldn't be. All lights easily hurt my eyes and i'm really sensitive to them. Sunlight, traffic lights, lights from cars, lights inside the house etc. Everything looks to have awful lot of "glare" on it or just look glossy. My night vision has gotten awful and especially then the lights hurt my eyes even more and everything in the dark looks so foggy and blurry. My sight still is pretty sharp most of the time, even almost too sharp some times? A lot of times without any clear reasons it can get somewhat/really blurry too though all of the sudden.
All the familiar places I go to, all the familiar people or anything look completely different, weird and "new" unlike what I used to see before. All the damn time, every single day. The vision could still change a bit at times for some reason. So that everything looks even more dull, grey and lifeless. And lightning could look even too bright, making everything look so dull. Even though most of the time I got this usual dim/dark vision with the messed up contrasts like I've explained. But it still varies a bit.
Because of this constant vision issue I've become even more anxious and depressed and it stresses me out 24/7. I dont even want to go outside the house anymore barely, even in familiar places or see people I'd otherwise want to. Even at home i'm scared and disturbed by my vision issues all the time.
If nothing physical is found to be reason for my vision, then could it be only caused by the constant huge anxiety and stress that has been "on" for months and possibly even led to derealization that wont let go? After more than 4 months and tons of doctor visits and tests etc, everything remains the same and nothing is found... I'm thinking of still visiting a neurologist one more time and after that I guess I'm forced to finally ask a psychiatrist about this... Or could it still be the damn wrongly diagnosed Lyme behind it all?
Thank you all in advance if you can help at all! : )
I wonder is it possible that after a long course of really bad anxiety, stress and depression combined with even really traumatic events to yourself... Could lead to "permanent" vision changes or disturbances?
I've had a really rough, horrible and traumatic events in the last year(For 8 months in row now) in my life. Terrible things have happened to myself, had chronic infections, couple failed big surgeries etc. All this has led to worst anxiety and stress ever in my life, which has also led to dark depression and none of it has gone away, since everything in life is still going just as badly.
All of the sudden at the start of this year I developed tons of new symptoms that I never had before. I was sure I had caught some serious disease suddenly. All my doctors told me at that point was... It must be flu or something. I had developed horrible cold intolerance/feeling cold/shivering symptoms along with severe pains all over my body, including horrible headaches. Also feeling tired and powerless all the time. Along came disturbances in my senses, especially in my vision. Some weird strange and horrible smell disturbances as well, which have mostly passed by now. But the disturbed vision stays!
I've been plenty of times in the ER, taken MRI of the brain, had wide infection tests done, seen plenty of specialists(neurologist, infection doctors, eye doctors) etc.
Been suspected having hypothyroidism, Type 2 Diabetes, Lyme disease, MS Disease, CFS, Fibromyalgia or something in my eyes like Optic Neuritis.
They've found nothing, aside of finally getting Fibromyalgia diagnosis last week. Lyme isn't 100% ruled out either, but at this point it wont be treated "for nothing" anyway.
The visual symptoms resemble closely to Optic Neuritis, but I've seen 2 different Eye doctors that have said my eyes are 100% perfect. Even though you dont always see that disease from the eyes...
So starting from January this year along with all the other symptoms I've developed this 24/7 visual changes that havent gone away at all. If anything, they've gotten worse only by time.
My vision seems to have dimmed, as if everywhere lights have been turned down(outside and inside) and contrasts are totally messed up. All colors look washed out and lifeless. My vision is more close to black/white sight than full vibrant color sight. Everything looks dark and "dead" often. Outside world may look really "grey" a lot of time, even that I know it really shouldn't be. All lights easily hurt my eyes and i'm really sensitive to them. Sunlight, traffic lights, lights from cars, lights inside the house etc. Everything looks to have awful lot of "glare" on it or just look glossy. My night vision has gotten awful and especially then the lights hurt my eyes even more and everything in the dark looks so foggy and blurry. My sight still is pretty sharp most of the time, even almost too sharp some times? A lot of times without any clear reasons it can get somewhat/really blurry too though all of the sudden.
All the familiar places I go to, all the familiar people or anything look completely different, weird and "new" unlike what I used to see before. All the damn time, every single day. The vision could still change a bit at times for some reason. So that everything looks even more dull, grey and lifeless. And lightning could look even too bright, making everything look so dull. Even though most of the time I got this usual dim/dark vision with the messed up contrasts like I've explained. But it still varies a bit.
Because of this constant vision issue I've become even more anxious and depressed and it stresses me out 24/7. I dont even want to go outside the house anymore barely, even in familiar places or see people I'd otherwise want to. Even at home i'm scared and disturbed by my vision issues all the time.
If nothing physical is found to be reason for my vision, then could it be only caused by the constant huge anxiety and stress that has been "on" for months and possibly even led to derealization that wont let go? After more than 4 months and tons of doctor visits and tests etc, everything remains the same and nothing is found... I'm thinking of still visiting a neurologist one more time and after that I guess I'm forced to finally ask a psychiatrist about this... Or could it still be the damn wrongly diagnosed Lyme behind it all?
Thank you all in advance if you can help at all! : )