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Jumping eyeballs

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I had to find a new opticians, today I met a lovely optometrist who was genuinely interested in me. I finally felt I could tell her about my eyeballs jumping, I hadn't asked before because I didn't feel I could.

Jumping ๐Ÿ‘€ eyeballs are caused by the nerve endings misbehaving and this is caused by fibromyalgia! Does anyone else have this phenomenon

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rosewine

I have what I call zaps when it feels like someone has given me an electric shock normally in my back but it can be hands or feet. Other times I swear someone is sticking a red hot knife in me. I know now like you it is the nerve endings playing upI just wished they would gland play elsewhere.

in reply to rosewine

The older I get the more symptoms of fibromyalgia shows up. It's getting harder and harder to cope. I am a Christian and without my faith I don't know what I would do

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LupieMani in reply to rosewine

This sounds like something called L'hermitte's sign. I've had a few of those but they seem to have calmed on pregabalin.

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rosewine in reply to LupieMani

I had nevere heard of it so looked it up you learn something from this forum every day.x

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LupieMani

Is it your eyes themselves (nystagmus) or jumping vision (oscillopsia)? They both feature in people with neurological conditions. I had the latter during my last big flare, a few months ago. Started with floaters, then blurry vision, and finally, the dancing vision. GP increased pregabalin dose, which seems to have taken care of that for now.

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It's my eyeballs, I also have lots of floaters.

Yes occasionally

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honeybug

Hi milly ๐Ÿ˜Š๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿฆ‹

I have jumpy/darting eye movements and mine is nystagmus from Meneires disease and neuropathy. I hadnโ€™t heard FM can cause this too. Interesting ๐Ÿค”

I hope yours is manageable.

Take care. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ™

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