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Night blindness in left eye

gaiscioch · 2014-04-07 17:47:28

First, I don't even know whether "night blindness" is the correct term for the following but I'll try and explain it. About two months ago I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I walked on to the hall, which was dark except for a light reflecting in the distance. Something didn't feel right with my…

07-04-2014 5:47pm

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First, I don't even know whether "night blindness" is the correct term for the following but I'll try and explain it.

About two months ago I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I walked on to the hall, which was dark except for a light reflecting in the distance. Something didn't feel right with my vision so I put my right hand over my right eye and I had absolutely no vision, none at all, out of my left eye. This was the first time this ever happened to me.

I turned on the bathroom light, walked in and my vision in both eyes was fine in this lit-up bathroom. I went to an optician later that week and she said if it happened again we can look into it. This inability to see anything out of the left eye in a dark, or shady, room is now a regular feature of my nighttime. Last night after it happened I couldn't get to sleep at all with worry, and I will visit my gp first thing tomorrow morning and get bloods tested.

Before that, however, would anybody in this thread know if this is a common problem, if I should be worried and what causes it? My big fear is it could be "progressive", which I understand to be synonymous with degenerative. I have been wearing daily disposable lenses for the past three-four years, and the prescription (-5) in the left eye includes astigmatism.

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