Eyes going crazy

[Bond12967]

Looking for reassurance..

I started a panic relapse almost a month ago (been great for 8 years) and I have a symptom that I just can’t shake.

When I wake up, or when I’m at work looking at my computer, or trying to watch tv or just any random part of the day even when I thought i was calm - my eyes go haywire. I can’t look at anything dead on, my eyes will “tremble”, and if I try to keep my head still and move my eyes to the left right up or down, they twitch and shake and go nuts. When it happens at work I panic and get afraid of having a conversation with someone because I feel they can see my eyes moving. It feels like pressure, strain, and sometimes like they’re popping out of my head. Just saw my regular eye doctor last week and he saw no issues, and this hasn’t happened until I started this anxiety relapse. It’s truly debilitating. Please tell me someone else has felt this and how do you soothe it?

[Indigojoe]

Brother If I tell you I am in a similar situation, believe me........

I was well controlled with daily anxiety.......got to a point that I woke up everyday FINE, and went about my day without any symptoms.

BOOM 4 weeks ago Saturday, I had a conversation with someone that really set me back, and I have slipped into the old patterns

........and MY EYES............

.got light flashes, and now big Fing floaters............I had to take my " cocktail" in order to actually call the freakin eye doc to make an appointment.

Had anyone seen how freaked out I was they probably would have, and should have, thrown a bucket of ice water on me.......... I got an all clear too.

However I have Freddie the freakin spider looking floater globbed in my vision.

You might want to get a massage.

IF your neck and shoulders are tense it messes with everything.

[Charbey in reply to Indigojoe]

Omg!!!!!! Indigojoe everything you said I went through a year and a half ago. Woke up with exactly what you said about the eyes. But I did the wrong thing jumped on Google and that was bad. My doctor the eye specialist said I'm fine. The neurologist said it was all in my trapeze muscles and my neck all the way to the base of my skull was so tight.

[cruess in reply to Indigojoe]

Did it ever go away. My anxiety has been an at all high since I was pregnant and now I have a lot of visual disturbances that seem to get worse. Floaters, after images, etc.

[Brightfuture22]

Bond,

EVERYTHING you said I experienced. Last Tuesday I was talking to my mom outside, during the beginning of a panic attack, when all of a sudden my eyes felt like they had so much pressure on them that they were either going to go cross eyed or pop outta my head. I instantly had to close them, this pressure and cross eyed feeling lasted for about 10 minutes or so and then was gone. I immediately had my mom take me to the ER, I thought I was having a stroke or something to that extent. It is a completely new symptom, one that I have never felt before. ER did blood work and ekg and then cleared me. It's so interesting to me that symptoms we feel because of the anxiety and panic that seem like they only happen to Us until we go on these forums and see lots of others with anxiety, panic, depression have experienced the same thing. I truly hope you recover from this panic episode you’ve been in for the last month. I am on month three into this horrid panic episode. It had been 15 years for me since I was in one of these, and I can only pray that it ends soon.

Cheers,

💜 Ash

[Bond12967 in reply to Brightfuture22]

Bright future, when this happens and I try to close my eyes I can feel my eye muscles just shaking away and if I try to look at someone directly it feels like my eyes are literally popping out and like stretched out. If I try to turn my eyes left or right everything from my eyes to my neck just shakes and trembles. This is s new anxiety symptom for me and I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online so I really thought it was something bad this time!!

[Brightfuture22 in reply to Bond12967]

Bond,

I completely understand why you would feel that! I thought the same thing. It hasn't happened again since Tuesday, thank goodness. I remember that I had a hard time keeping my eyes closed when it happened. It was like my eyes had a mind of their own and I had to fight to keep them closed. I didn't try to look around when it happened so I am not sure about the looking left and right, but I do know that the minute my panic sets in I get bad trembles and shakes. I hope it doesn't continue to happen to you!

Cheers!

Ashley