Blurry mornings

[erash]

For the past week or so, my morning vision has been very blurry.hard to read 🙁 It improves as the day progresses. I've tried using natural tears before bed and in the morning. No help. Not sure if my sleeping pill is causing this or the ms? The sleeper isn't new. So I'm thinking ms? 👀Any insights? (Ha ha!)

[Morllyn]

Mine have been doing the same thing erash ! But that is coming from someone who just got told she didn't have MS, after 40 years of being told she had. Sorry, feeling a bit grumpy. Actually my eyes have been blurry in the morning for 2 to 3 weeks now. Sometimes it goes away rather quickly and others it takes a while. Don't know why or what it is.

[erash in reply to Morllyn]

So sorry Morllyn

I asked the pharmacist and she didn't think it was my sleeping pill. Since you may not have a mess I suspect it's also something on the retinal nerve???

[Morllyn in reply to erash]

My eye doctor said, when I told him that I had intermittent blurriness but he kept saying no problem, that it could be the optic nerve behind where he could see.

[erash in reply to Morllyn]

Morllyn my neuro said its MS a and the retinal nerve when I mentioned a yr. or so ago. She recommended an OCT if persisted but there's nothing specific they can do for it...I think Iona60 had the OCT?

[Iona60 in reply to erash]

erash and Morllyn Yes, I did have the OCT. I believe the first one was to use as a baseline. Seems like I read, or the neuro said, that comparing the OCT from year to year is as good, or a better indicator of disease progression than an MRI.

On another note, being on Gilenya, one of the things I am regularly checked for is macular edema. Opthamologist said that the biggest symptom of this is blurriness.

[Fattius in reply to erash]

They didn't even recommend glasses I had to figure that much out myself

[Fattius in reply to Morllyn]

Have your doc/s checked for PML its not even talked about but scary

[erash in reply to Fattius]

That would be scary Fattius

I'm not on any DMT so I don't think I have a significant risk

[Morllyn in reply to Fattius]

I am not on any DMT's either.

[agapepilgrim in reply to Morllyn]

What protocols help you then? Is your MS not professing? Are your symptoms not progressing? So afraid not to be on something. MRI showed lesions are bigger and more brain damage scars onbright side and my symptoms getting worse. It's not old age- my family history is working up in the 80s and living til 99s so I get angry when someone says it's just old age!

[erash in reply to agapepilgrim]

agapepilgrim my protocols are??? trying healthy lifestyle. Hope it's working. MRIs have had no change x diagnosis but my symptoms do progress...

[agapepilgrim in reply to erash]

I was very disappointed 7/17 showed more damage to right side of brain, but "in acceptance lieth peace". Another favorite poem.

[erash in reply to agapepilgrim]

agapepilgrim my acceptance waxes and Wayne's along with my symptoms 🙃

[agapepilgrim in reply to erash]

EXACTLY!! I still scream into my pillow in sorrow and sometimes just stomp my feet (holding onto the cabinet of course) in anger

[agapepilgrim in reply to Morllyn]

Probably dry eye inflammation. Try systane ultra or anything for dry eyes. Or, if serious, I had to get plusgs put in my tear ducts to conserve tears. Always something @Morilyn

[Fattius]

Not sure but very well could be the MS. My vision has went double

[erash in reply to Fattius]

So sorry Fattius

😞

[Nom_De_Plume in reply to Fattius]

@fattius and others, it must be maddeningly to have double-vision. Is there anything that can be done to help with that?

[Fattius in reply to Nom_De_Plume]

Apparently not at least in my situation anyway. Vision problems are very common with people with MS

[Nom_De_Plume in reply to Fattius]

Fattius

I'm sorry to hear that. It must be difficult. 😞

[jennie62]

erash

My vision is blurry from time to time. Sorry I never remember to write down when, but I do know it coincides with trying to read books whether in book form or on a kindle.

@Fattius

My vision has gone double a few times. The first time my former country doc blamed Type 2 diabetes, but later apologized when I was diagnosed with MS and told me I don't have diabetes. So must be a part of MS...I think? LOL???

[Fattius in reply to jennie62]

And that right there is the problem. These doctors feel like everybody owes them something when they spend a third of their life and school like we are supposed to owe them some kind of pittance I have met harder working people and fast food then these entitled evil so-called Christians I love how they are religious but play God with people's lives and health

[Iona60]

erash What I used to think was blurry vision for me, is really double vision. The neruo opthamologist said that some of this is coming from dry eyes and my corneas are getting scratched. I've started using "dry eye relief" drops many times a day.

[erash in reply to Iona60]

Iona60 did it mostly bother u in themornings? I've had this before and tried more frequent wetting drops but it didn't make a difference...more transient and not as bad then. Can't hurt to increase the frequency of the drops though.

[Iona60 in reply to erash]

erash Always in the mornings, but also frequently during the day. I've tried to keep off the overhead fans as this may be contributing to the eye dryness.

[BigMar7]

Has your eye doctor seen any cataracts in your eyes? I have a cataract in each eye and my vision is blurry. I was told to wait till it was really bad before I had surgery.

[erash in reply to BigMar7]

BigMar7 had eye exam in November, no cataracts or dry eyes. All was well. I saw a neuro ophthalmologist yrs ago when this first started and told no problems, no ON, just get bifocals...that didn't help.

Less blurry this morn?

[greaterexp]

erash , I can't help with suggestions, but will applaud your development as a grand punster.

[bxrmom]

My vision was first blurry before my diagnosis, which ultimately sending me to a ophthalmologist which tried to tell me it was my antidepressant at the time (that I had been on for YEARS).. At night when I'm over tired my vision will sometimes get blurry. After I get a good night rest, then it is better in the morning.

Jessie

[agapepilgrim]

@erash morning blurriness a common everyday thing with me nowadays. Having to blow the screen text up very large (even with glasses on( Ophthalmologist days not MS but very dry eyes. I am on Xiidra (allergic to the other brand),but mornings are still terrible. I must use Systane ultra drops every 4 hours also. It is very frustrating, but eye doc said mornings are worse because we don't blink while we sleep, thus cleans creating of the tear film. It helps to also put warm wet cloth on eyes and hold for awhile. Sometimes blurrineas goes away. Hope this helps, but do try the drops for dry eyes. Neurologist said if it was ON causes I would also have pain. But what do they know?? Lol. The extremely dry eye (forget the disease bane-lol, diesnmy matter it us what it is. Restaurant is what I am allergic to; thankful they invented the Xiidra and more thankful my oinsurance approved and read financial aid to help with co-pay. But HELP with the nausea!

[faustkatrina]

i sometimes have blurry vision in the mornings and the afternoons when i am having a little flare up and am when i am fatigued more than usual. For me its part of the MS. I did see a neuroopthomologist and told me there is a certain way to do the MRI to see the nerves. Not sure if this is true or not because i never had this particular MRI. My vision at this time when I saw him cleared up because of going on steroids. The blurriness still comes back intermittently with fatigue like all of my other usual symptoms which occur first thing in the morning until my body wakes up and by the afternoon when I fatigue again and certain things come and go and others are more constant.

Hope this helps.

By the way, what does OTC stand for?

[erash in reply to faustkatrina]

faustkatrina

OTC over the counter

My blurring is slightly better with consistent use of tear drops but I'm still not convinced it's only dry eyes

Thanks for the info