Comfort

[Leopard45]

Hey everyone... I have a question. I haven’t been feeling too anxious but In the morning, something weird happened to me and ever since even though it’s not happening anymore I still don’t feel comfortable, feels like an all day panic attack.

This morning when I was putting in my contacts, I rolled my eye back because my contact got stuck and then I started seeing stars in my vision, like when you stand up too fast. They were like sparkles in my vision. It was only for 10 seconds but I didn’t really do anything that would’ve caused flashes so I stared freaking out, I have bad vision and floaters but I’m only 22 so the flashes scared me. Now all day, I’m in kinda like a derealkzarion I think, I feel off balance and light headed which is my main symptom and heart palps. I think it’s because I’m anxious about what happened this morning and can’t calm down.

Does this happen to any of y’all! I’m trying to feel better but my body is just still producing symptoms making me more anxious about the flashes this morning

[Hidden]

I’ve gotten the stars thing, I looked it up and it’s pretty common. Sometimes the retina gets out of alignment and that happens. It’s not considered a big issue, it’s not a brain tumor or something like that

[Dorsey]

The more you think about it the more it happens. Anxiety feeds off anxiety it scares the hell out of us. I know been like this for 2 years slowly klikng me.

[Jeff1943]

The symptom you describe is caused by the vitreous humour (the gel that fills your eyes) pressing or pulling on the retina at the back of your eye due to the slight pressure caused by putting in your contact lenses. It doesn't take much pressure and it happens at random. I've experienced this many times.

Talk to your doctor about it for reassurance but if it was caused by a detached retina you would have a blank area in your vision and you don't have this, so relax.

[peanutbuttercup in reply to Jeff1943]

Jeff you really are a blessing.

[Agora1 in reply to peanutbuttercup]

Jeff is the best

[peanutbuttercup in reply to Agora1]

LOL...Agora you are my other favorite. Always positive and saying just the right thing.

[luked]

I get this all the time, light headed and heart palpitations, really really annoying

[Krn210]

I have seen the stars that you are talking about. When I was really anxious I saw them often. I had multiple tests done and everything was just fine. They told me if your retina were detaching that you would see bright flashes of light that you know aren’t there.