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Blurriness, Difficulty Focusing In Left Eye, Dimmer Image Than Right Eye. What's This Problem ?
Hi. I am a nineteen year old girl who is nearsighted (-2.5 in both eyes). I have had a problem with my left eye for around 5 months. It s been feeling prickly and blurry. It also has trouble focusing, for example when I look at a computer screen it s only clear for one second and then it becomes blurry. I do not have this problem in my right eye (the right eye does not go blurry at all, even after many seconds). The other symptoms that I have been experiencing include that it seems to see a dimmer image than the right eye. The right eye is a clear, crisp image but the left is not. Also when I go from a light room into a dark room, or from a dark room into a light room, it feels like I m not receiving an image from my left eye. It s almost like a screen has been placed in front of it. I first noticed this after I accidentally sprayed some perfume into the left eye 5 months ago. However I have been to many doctors, optometrists, ophthalmologists and even had a CAT scan and apparently everything looks fine. The only thing that a doctor has said is that it could be dry... But eye drops don t seem to fix the problem. Recently when I put in my contacts, my left eye hurt so badly that I had to take them off. I am getting increasingly worried that I am going to have this problem forever and I was wondering what it could be a symptom of. After some research it sounds like a lazy eye? I would really appreciate your medical opinion. Thank you! (Also I don t know if this is relevant but sometimes it feels like my left eye sees higher than the right, in that the object I m looking at shifts slightly upwards when I close the right one. I don t think this is anything though as I had this tested too and I can t tell when both eyes are open).
Wed, 20 Feb 2013
Dear Isabel ,Hi,I read your history of blurry vision in your left eye compared to right eye.First of all let me tell you that since you have started using glasses only 5 months back there is s chance that your lt eye is a lazy eye and rt is a dOminant one.Second, since you have difficulty in focusing on computers in a very short spam there are chances your lt eye may have dry eye syndrome due to which your cornea is getting dried and the images become hazy.It may be due to any cause but do rule meibomian gland dysfunction and blepheritis .A history of chemical injury with a perfume may also cause some subepithelial haze which may cause blurring.I can only suggest now to do a dry eye work up by an ophthalmologist and if that is all right and no subepithelial haze then you are suffering from amblyopia or lazy eye.In short do your vision test, dry eye work up,slit lamp examination and fundus examination...Use some lubricating drops till you show an ophthalmologist....TC ...dr Ajay shankar Kar
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