Amorous fugax

[Tim_Thorpe]

How serious is amourous fugax when caused by sticky blood should I go to A&E if I get it ??

[MaryF Administrator]

If you have a new and worrying symptom that has come in, due to your underlying condition of Hughes Syndrome/APS you probably need to go and check it out, I am not sure how reliable 111 is. MaryF

[Lure2]

Hi Tim,

I had "Amorous fugax" (told by a Neurologist", before I started anticoagulation with Warfarin.

I could not see on my right eye for some minutes (always the right eye). Kay Thackray writes about a lot of "eye-symptolms" in her book "Sticky blood Explained". Buy it.

You have to keep anticoagulated when you are on Warfarin in your therapeutic level. You told us yesterday about how your INR changed in 11 days. My INR changes every time and I have to checque it by selftesting 2 - 3 times a week.

Hope you have a Specialist and test your INR in the vein very often. Tell him about your eye-problems as you should absolutely not have them as they are most certainly clots or micro-embolies or TIAs whatever they call it.

Let us hear how it goes but call up your Specialist at once if he/she does not know about them. Mine were ok when I was anticoagulated but we are all different even with this illness.

Kerstin

[Zamalek]

Hi there, I have never heard of amorous fugax, is this another name for a Retinal

Vein Occlusion? or is it something else? I think you should go to Eye Casualty.

[Ozchick in reply to Zamalek]

A simple typo- amaurosis fugax Otherwise it it looks like some other exotic disease! it should be transient otherwise off to eye specialist as it could be a retinal detachment-much more serious.

[Hidden]

From what I read it is only a temporary loss of vision in one eye that leaves no lasting or permanent effects. It is described as a vertical curtain being drawn over one eye or one part/side of the visual field. A RVO is much more serious, as if it is in an artery, it can cause a permanent loss in vision. I bet these are scary nonetheless.

I have 20/100 uncorrected vision in one eye, with some loss of three D vision, and the eye also does not track properly. It is called (amblyopia) or lazy eye where one eye is sort of crooked. I only have a slight version of this that is hard to detect unless you are trained to spot them. I was asked back in 2007 if I had ever had an injury to the eye, as this was likely the cause. Thinking back now, I often times wonder if a blood clot has caused this. I will ask my eye specialist when I go in for a new pair of glasses.