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@ehdog
When hypertension affects vision, the loss is not tiny or subtle. “Larger areas” refers to whole sections of vision that are missing or severely blurred. This can look like a dark or gray area covering part or all of your visual field, difficulty seeing out of one side, or vision that appears washed out or distorted across a noticeable region. It interferes with life. You would notice it immediately, without needing to search for it.
This type of vision loss does not fluctuate. If someone has hypertensive eye damage, the problem is present every time they open their eyes. It does not appear and disappear, and it does not depend on focus or attention.
Hypertensive vision damage ONLY occurs with clearly uncontrolled blood pressure, much higher than yours, and over a long period of time.
A small, occasional blind spot that comes and goes is not how hypertensive eye disease presents. That pattern is consistent with migraine aura, visual strain, or anxiety related visual processing changes, especially in someone whose blood pressure is consistently normal on medication.
Since your readings are steady and normal on both cuffs, there is NO mechanism for hypertension to be causing vision problems. Nothing you’ve described matches hypertensive eye damage.