My left eye...

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:07 pm

Is fucked...

You know if you turn the gamma up on your pc screen, it turns like really white. Well, several times over the past few years, a similar thing like that has happened to my eye, going almost blind in it beacause everything turns almost completely white.

Its happening again now, well, it was. Wasnt anywere near as bad this time, I could still see well, just that things went a bit blury and gammerafiedyshittythingymajiggy.

Back to normal now, more or less.
Weird... :icon27:

Post by **Bdw3** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:08 pm

o_0 Maybe time to pay a visit to the optometrist?

Post by **R00k** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:09 pm

It might have been pepper spray:
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articl ... ?source=PA

Post by **Fender** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:09 pm

Good thing you are posting about it here instead of going to the doctor. Emergency averted.

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:10 pm

That's odd, oblivio.0ns left eye is also fucked. 0_0

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:13 pm

my mates left eye freaks me out, his one eyes green and the fucked ones blue and he cant look left with it, when he stairs at you its like

we call him leftey

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:14 pm

Bdw3 wrote:o_0 Maybe time to pay a visit to the optometrist?

Bah, cant be anything serious if its only happening every 6 months or so.

Its pretty cool sometimes :icon25:

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:15 pm

losCHUNK wrote:my mates left eye freaks me out, his one eyes green and the fucked ones blue and he cant look left with it, when he stairs at you its like

we call him leftey

There was this girl at school a bit like that. She had weird eyes and wherever she walked, she walked with her head to the left a bit so that her right eye could see or something like that.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:19 pm

boo wrote:
losCHUNK wrote:my mates left eye freaks me out, his one eyes green and the fucked ones blue and he cant look left with it, when he stairs at you its like

we call him leftey
There was this girl at school a bit like that. She had weird eyes and wherever she walked, she walked with her head to the left a bit so that her right eye could see or something like that.

aye man its freaky, my mate can walk in a straight line fine but if he talks to you out the corner of his eye, i aint got a clue who hes talking to untill he goes "you listening or wha"

its a good party trick tho

Post by **Scarface** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:20 pm

dzjepp wrote:That's odd, oblivio.0ns left eye is also fucked. 0_0

holy fuck :icon19:

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:21 pm

I love it when people can actualy make there left eye look left and right eye move right. Or make them move anywere individualy. so creepy.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:21 pm

We have another cockeye on this board?

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:22 pm

No... im not cockeyed.

Just tend to go blind every 6 months or so

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:23 pm

boo wrote:No... im not cockeyed.

Just tend to go blind every 6 months or so

lol, that aint good yo

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:25 pm

only in 1 eye!

Not completely blind either.
As I say, turn the gamma right up on your computer and see what the screen is like.
Its JUST like that.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:26 pm

could be just eye strain, i get it every once in a while when i stare at the monitor to long

with me tho it feels like one eye is focusing before the other

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:27 pm

I get it anywere

Had it one day when going to ipswich...
Another before getting into a bath...
Its cool though. Feels like your tripping out but you aint

Well, turn the gamma up AND then the brightness.
Its JUST like that. With one eye. Looking through both is weird, normal in one eye, fucked in the other.

Post by **inphlict** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:30 pm

Sounds serious dude, go check that shit out maybe they can help you before you go blind.

Post by **boo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:32 pm

inphlict wrote:Sounds serious dude, go check that shit out maybe they can help you before you go blind.

Ive never really thought about it being serious.
Hardly ever happens so ive not really thought about it

Ill bear it in mind though :icon14:

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:34 pm

Sometimes I think losing an eye might not be so bad if you get to wear an eyepatch and look all badass afterwards.

Post by **inphlict** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:34 pm

from another forum

It sounds to me like a vitreous detachment. The vitreous is the "liquid" in your eyeball. It is stuck to your retina (the "photopaper" on the back of you eyeball). If it becomes unstuck, common if you are very very shortsighted (like me) or have a sudden blow to the head or eye, it can cause flashing lights to apear for just a second. I have had this (and infact still do). I get regular flashes in my left eye. They are a sudden small prick of white light. This is because the vitreous is moving about and causing a "short circit" in the retina.

If you get more of these and you also get some black shapes floating in your vision go straight to A&E as it could be your retina detaching which if not caught soon enough could leave you blind in that eye.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:36 pm

holy shit, so when you get bashed in the head and everything goes white thats your retina thingy detaching :L

Post by **boo** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:47 am

inphlict wrote:from another forum

It sounds to me like a vitreous detachment. The vitreous is the "liquid" in your eyeball. It is stuck to your retina (the "photopaper" on the back of you eyeball). If it becomes unstuck, common if you are very very shortsighted (like me) or have a sudden blow to the head or eye, it can cause flashing lights to apear for just a second. I have had this (and infact still do). I get regular flashes in my left eye. They are a sudden small prick of white light. This is because the vitreous is moving about and causing a "short circit" in the retina.

If you get more of these and you also get some black shapes floating in your vision go straight to A&E as it could be your retina detaching which if not caught soon enough could leave you blind in that eye.

Holy fuck... I get that sometimes. But only at night while im in bed. I used to think that it was because I keep my phone next to my pillow and whenever I got a message it flashed bright. Gotten used to it so now, even when nothings happening on the phone, I still get a flash.

Its hard to explain. Weird thing is though, it only really happens in my left eye

It isnt that Vitreous thing because what happens is it comes slowly, everything goes bright and white, lasts a few minutes and then slowly goes away.

Though, I do get like a flash at night time though, but I still doubt that its that Vitreous thing. I just think its down to my mind and the flash I used to get from my phone.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:11 am

Nah, it's not a vitreous detachment. Buggered if I know what it is, but at a bare minimum I'd get someone to take a look at you through a slit lamp, seriously.

Inphlict's right though, a few floaters are OK but if you suddenly get a lot without warning, A&E is a good bet.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:15 am

Oddly, if you manage to get your eyes to stop moving completely for long enough, the same thing happens (even when you think your eyes aren't moving at all, they're actually still darting around minutely - the brain takes all of those images and jams them into your perception of visual space); your vision goes because the neurons in your optic nerve get bored at the fact that nothing's changing, and stop firing.

Not that I really think that's what's happening to you, just an "interesting" aside