my symptoms have been drastically diminished lately, the main reason I haven’t posted in a while. Whether that’s due to the changes I’ve made to diet or B12 supplements, I have no idea.
But one thing has been bugging me over the past 6 months, and I was hoping for some advice.
When I’m tired, I can’t focus too well and have a tendency to go cross-eyed. This is mainly at night-time, although it does occasionally occur at other times of the day when fatigue is kicking in. Let me be clear - this isn’t a debilitating fatigue (which I did have an experience of for about a week a good while back), but is more a standard tiredness that anyone can have at the end of the day or when they’ve slept badly etc.
Question is, should I consider this cross-eyed phenomenon as just my eye muscles getting older (I’ll be hitting the big 50 this year), or should I get it checked out?
The last time I saw an optician was about a year ago, and she did notice that my eye muscles were weakening, but I hadn’t told her about any other of my health issues at the time.
For info, it’s been confirmed that I have damage to small fibre nerves in the legs and one motor nerve in the left foot. Even so, I don’t want to assume every problem I have is automatically connected. Is this eye thing something I should worry about, or should I just mark it down as my body tiring normally with age?
If it’s your eyes, I would say get it checked out. I once had a problem with occasional double vision, but not cross-eyed style, I was seeing two images one above the other. As I say, it was occasional, so I didn’t get it checked for a while.
My optician referred me to the hospital, and by the time the appointment arrived it had cleared up on its own. I still attended and was told it had probably been mild optic neuritis, but they couldn’t be certain. The same thing happened again a couple of years later, but it was even milder than before, and again cleared up on its own.
Luckily there was no lasting damage and it has not returned.
I think I’ve just been avoiding going back to the whole topic. I’ve found this comfortable place where I can forget about it, and then I don’t need to worry about it.
I changed country last summer, so I haven’t seen a single doctor/neuro since then. It’s been heaven!
I think I was hoping someone on the forum would tell me that I didn’t need to worry about it, as it’s only when I’m tired. You are probably right, though. I should get it checked. Though, I sort of feel like I’m opening Pandora’s Box every time I see anyone medical about all this.