Why did I go blind in my eye..?!


Question: Well, as you could guess, my sight returned, but only twice have I lost sight in my right eye.

The first time I was using nail polish remover and after a few seconds I felt my eyesight was kind of funky. I opened my eyes one at a time and realized that it was my right eye. It was like when you take a picture, and there is that blue/green box in your vision, but instead it was everything that i could see in that eye, except for a little dot in the middle where i could see. I rushed to my mom and she told me to lay down with my eyes closed. After about 2 minutes I could fully see again, and it didnt happen again until just recently. It was strange, I had been reading and when I set the book down and started walking away, the left side of my right eye's vision was exactly like the first time I lost sight in the eye. Again i layed down and my sight returned.

But Im wondering why this happened? I wear glasses and I might not have been wearing them much so is that the reason? Plz help


Answers: Well, as you could guess, my sight returned, but only twice have I lost sight in my right eye.

The first time I was using nail polish remover and after a few seconds I felt my eyesight was kind of funky. I opened my eyes one at a time and realized that it was my right eye. It was like when you take a picture, and there is that blue/green box in your vision, but instead it was everything that i could see in that eye, except for a little dot in the middle where i could see. I rushed to my mom and she told me to lay down with my eyes closed. After about 2 minutes I could fully see again, and it didnt happen again until just recently. It was strange, I had been reading and when I set the book down and started walking away, the left side of my right eye's vision was exactly like the first time I lost sight in the eye. Again i layed down and my sight returned.

But Im wondering why this happened? I wear glasses and I might not have been wearing them much so is that the reason? Plz help

This could be as simple as "floaters", dead cells floating inside your eye. It could be a sensativity to the nail polish remover.
If you have 20/20 vision, you don't need glasses, unless you were given them to make you use the lazy eye (I was given a prescription that made my vision worse in the right eye to make me use the left...it didn't work!).
If you are near-sighted, you see close up really well, but not distance.
My eyesight is 20-70 & 20/75, very nearsighted & I have had two surgeries for lazyeye...but my left eye still drifts.
Sometimes, with lazy eye, you stop using the lazy eye and slowly lose ability to use it. I make myself use my left eye...it has better vision than my right eye, especially for reading.
Have your mom take you to an eye specialist (not just the eye doctor) & get your eyes checked. Also, get checked for diabetes, while having a complete physical, bloodwork and all.

Just ask mom to get you to a doctor for a check-up. Best wishes for the New Year!

With something like this, it sounds like something systemically. Could you be diabetic? Are you getting up too quickly and get light-headed? Since you seem to be young, I wouldn't think that it would be due to high cholesterol or an emboli. Does your vision go completely out, or just part of it? Your glasses does not have anything to do with you losing vision temporarily. You should go to see your eye doctor so that they can look at your eyes and refer on if they need to.

Temporary loss of vision in a young person is usually caused by a visual migraine (don't necessarily need to have a headache).

You should have an assessment by a neuro-ophthalmologist to be sure.





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