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Central retinal artery occlusion
Eye Conditions | Last Active: May 25, 2023 | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
Extremely nearsighted, all my life with bad astigmatism. Keratoconus started in the late 80s and slowly progressed into into the year 2000, until I was legally blind, also had cataracts. Only option were cornea transplants which help me see again for 15 years. Started noticing curved weird vision in my left eye was diagnosed with myopic degenerative disease and the first injection in my eye was Avastin, which miraculously helped me see again for a year but unfortunately this disease gets worse and so eight years later, I get quite a few injections of Eylea. The last round was one injection every month for four months. On April 16 I was looking at my phone and had this dreadful feeling come over my whole body and my left eye went black. I was diagnosed with an eye stroke and sent to the hospital for further tests. Was finally diagnosed with retinal artery occlusion in my left eye. What vision I have left is slowly coming back. I can see light, vision is very distorted. It was before with the degenerative disease, but now it’s even worse I have been told this will probably be it as my vision will not improve anymore and I should be lucky. I even got this back it. It has been a constant battle with my eyes all my life.
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Welcome @ellerchim. You certainly have had a long istory of eye issues. I'm tagging fellow members like @dianas @hikergirl and @IndianaScott who also have experience with an eye stroke (retinal artery ccclusion).
It must be hard to accept that vision will likely not improve beyond where you're at now. Reading your profile is obvious that vision issues have not slowed you down however! Do you use a screen reader to take part in this forum?
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Experienced extreme dizziness waking up in the morning as I was stretching. Thought that was strange after it subsided got up and was dizzy again. In great health. Workout everyday. Next morning felt ok was looking at my phone and had this doomsday feeling flood my body and my vision in my left eye went dark with only shards of light coming thru. Retinal specialist.( I also have myopic degenerative disease.) put me in the hospital when he saw plaque possibly heading to my brain . It finally was going down ( wherever it went) and consulted several doctors which were no help. The last one diagnosed me with an eye stroke. Vision has slowly returned what is left if it. There is light and a lot of distortion . I have been told I should be lucky it even is like this and what is left will be permanent. Anyone else had this happen?