did you ever go blind temporarily?

It happened to me once when I had a bad flu and high fever. My vision went hazy at first and then it went gray with no detail, like a TV screen with just the raster and no video. It lasted about a half-day.

Journalist Anderson Cooper recently went blind for a day and a half after sunburning his retinas. He was in bright sunlight and on water. He has a nearly albino complexion which may have made him more susceptable. He had the sawdust in the eyes feeling similar to what happens to welders who don't use an eye filter and are exposed to intense UV.

 

Once my sister sprayed bleach in my eyes and I was blind for a few hours I just went to sleep and prayed for it to get better and it did.

 

No, but I'm glad to know about this possibility in case it ever happens to me =P

 

sex so good,, ya..

 

Yes, if I eat any kind of weed food I always temporarily lose my vision. It also sometimes happens if I just smoke too much. Not cool.

 

just once for a about an hour...and then a week of one eye patched and one working..that one was from an assault that needed stitches to my face..the eye survived fine so far

ive had the welding burns many times but it was never enough to be blind ...just a hell of a surprise the next morning from the pain

 

What happened. Granted I assume since u didn't say u probably don't want to

 

some bastard kid threw a rock and hit my eye and cheekbone in grade 6

 

Awww that sucks and u had to go to school with the patch ugh I would have made sure I got that kid later when I could

 

i think i stayed home all week


couldnt get the kid back because his mother worked for the school...he didnt get in any trouble for it


but i still have time

 

My Mom Often Told Me If I Kept

Playing With My "Pe Pe" I Would Go Blind...*truth*.

I'm Pleased To Say My Mom Was Wrong....



Cheers Glen.

 

LOLOL ^ Glen


Now - to me.
About 100 years ago, when they only had hard contact lenses and I was in my 1st year of college, I went to sleep with them in. I woke up...and somehow managed to unsuction them from my eyes. I was literally blind. I could see the color gray, if it was real bright (outside), and darkness (mostly).
Had to call my mother (who was seriously not pleased with me) who then took me to the eye doc...my corneas would probably "warp and scar", I think he said...but that the cells would regenerate (or some such) in a few days. They did. I definitely saw again, and wore contacts off and on until I said to hell with it - about 15 years ago.

And - contact wearing was never the same after that.

 

First time I masturbated I thought I was going to go blind. My eyes were twiching like crazy.

 

I went blind for like half an hour during a choral recital in elementary school. I think I was actually really close to passing out from the hot lights but I never did, my vision just completely blacked out. The chorus teacher used to get so pissed when you were looking at anything but her during a recital. I just know she was mouthing "look at ME" the whole time.

 

Mmm, well not like darkened vision. But I do remember a time where thanks to a junior staff member, I had clouded vision in one eye for at least an hour. I was working at a farm with her at the time, and she was helping me with a few sheep who had bloat. There's this green stuff we were using, which smells like peppermint, and jokingly, the other staff and volunteers occasionally dared each other to try it.

So we had some large syringes, and were squirting this stuff into these sheep's mouths, and the junior staff member shoves one of the syringes in my face and dares me to try it. I declined, and giving her rep as being a bit of a nong, she squirts this stuff right into my left eye.

I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or yell at her but the first thing I did was run to the sink and basically stick my whole head under the tap, cursing at her the whole time. Ended up blinking into a cool cup of water for a long while after that, plotting revenge.

Got her back later on by dumping about two cups of milk we'd mixed from powder over her head. "Oh dear! So sorry, Ruth. I didn't see you. My bad." The great thing about the powdered milk is it sets, sticks, and flies LOVE it.

 

i've had that head rush thing where your vision goes black for a few seconds.

and once, i accidentally shot spray paint onto my face and couldn't open my eyes until i got it washed off.

 

Well...I don't have full sight in my left eye as is. Most vision loss I've ever had has been from blacking out because I held a hit too long, lol. And there was one time my friends and I went bowling and some kid had left an empty prize egg from one of those quarter machines on the table we sat at and my jackass friend flicked that motherfucker right in my eye. It was funny once I actually regained sight in that eye. Haha.

I've got a friend who is just now regaining her sight because her brain thinks she has a brain tumor and is reacting as such. She had excessive pressure on her optic nerve and her vision was blurry for a few days, then just gone one day. She doesn't have a tumor, but she has before. She's got to have a spinal tap today, too. Eesh.

 

I went blind once. It was my 12th or 13th birthday. We went miniature golfing, and it happened to be the hottest day of the summer. There were 3 groups of us playing. I was in the first group, other friends were in the second, and all the parents were in the last group. When I got to the end of the course, everything had gone blurry white, then white. It was caused by heat stroke, and for some reason my mother didn't believe me. I some how made it to the main building, which wasn't far away, and sat in the air conditioning. They had just installed an snowball stand that summer, and the operator brought me a cup of ice. I was fine a half hour later.

My mother was so upset that she didn't believe me.

 

I have optical migraines. When I have a severe episode it as as if someone placed a finger over the center of my eye and the remaining working part of the eye is all hazy.

I have had to be hospitalized (when younger) and treated to relieve the migraine so that I was able to function again.

Thankfully I have not had a migraine this severe in years and I hope never to have one again.

Strange feeling not being able to see.

 

Pseudotumor Cerebri? I have that but mine's been in remission for about 7 years. I never had to have the tap, or the shunt, mine resolved with medication.

My husband has gone "white blind", as he describes it, several times from low blood sugar.