Blurred vision

[sgupta]

It could very well be allergy.

Last summer (and at that time I wasn't vaping or using nicotine at all actually), I ended up having a sudden vision change with irritated eyes. But I recall focusing on anything taking *forever* and my eye prescription no longer worked right. It was sort of a panicky moment, so I went to the eye doctor - she confirmed my vision seemed to change but didn't see anything else wrong, and she noted my eyes were even dryer than usual (I use two eyedrops - one [Patanol] for allergies and one [Restasis] for tear production). She prescribed me a temporary stronger allergy eyedrop (don't remember the name), and a few days later, literally overnight (went to bed one night and woke up the next day), it went away and my vision returned to normal. I discontinued use of the stronger drops (ok'd by her) and things have remained fine.

So sometimes weird things happen, and she chalked it up to allergies as it was during a bad allergy season, but I still don't know the root cause.

Might be the e-liquid ingredients vaped set off yours. But yes, I agree with the others - talk to your eye doctor and don't panic too much - everything might return to normal, but I'd still certainly work with a professional on it and not ignore it either. If you find the PG e-liquid *is* the cause when you get your 0 nic stuff, maybe you could try VG?

Best of luck and hope you work it out soon!

 

[BARENETTED]

Exactly, it could be a LOT of things. My point is - we are NOT DOCTORS.

If someone is having a problem they should see their doctor rather than losing precious time asking amateurs.

Shortly after I started vaping, I developed 'floaters' or spots in my right eye. There is no cure - they will always be there. My vision is blurry and spotty and is not going to get any better. I did go to my eye doctor and had an exam. He sent me to a retina specialist to make sure I had no retinal damage.

Here is the full story - the 'floaters' appeared just after getting off an airplane that brought me from NJ to Florida. I was in a panic. When it did not clear up after a good night's sleep and a shower, I called the my Doctor in NJ and made an appointment for the day I would be returning to NJ. I told him everything. Guess what? My Doctor said the exact thing happened to him years ago, also after getting off of an airplane.

Vaping had nothing to do with it. I never thought it did. I was scared but I let my Doctor decide. If he thought it was even remotely related to vaping, I would have put everything in the garbage and never looked back. He congratulated me and told me to keep up the good work.

 

[ZipJim]

Wow - I wasn't expecting such varied responses!

I hadn't considered the allergy angle, so thanks to Sgupta and others who suggested it. It's definitely worth exploring, so I've just ordered some low nico VG liquid and will be seeing an optician next week. Hopefully, all will be resolved soon. Thanks also to Wormwood for the supportive comments. Whilst most folk here seem to be both friendly and helpful, I do appear to have rattled a couple of cages!

Back in June, I quit smoking and began vaping. Both have significant chemical consequences and as a result, I feel totally justified in placing them high on the suspects list for causing my recent eyesight problem. Had I instead, significantly altered my diet, I would be trawling a nutrition forum. I certainly didn't come here seeking conclusive medical advice, although I'm very grateful for the numerous helpful suggestions and support. I simply asked if anyone had experienced similar symptoms to me. Something from which I can gain some perspective.

In posting, I hoped for (and welcomed) varied suggestions and advice, I really didn't expect to be rudely accused of talking BS and providing weapons for a government agency! This thread is in a section devoted to health and safety issues with regards to vaping. Many other members have reported a huge variety of symptoms without being leapt upon. Surely, we should feel free to discuss any potentially related health issues regardless of how serious they are?

Anyway, apologies for the counter-rant and thanks again for the support.

Jim

 

[DaBrat]

Jim let us know what the doc says. We are all in this together with a relatively new technology. I don't think anyone was accusing you for asking. I took it as wanting to know if anyone had similar experiences. If you are using PG switch to VG, it may help. However, I hope that your eyesight issue is not related to vaping. Luckily my eyesight started to get suddenly blurry BEFORE I started vaping. On one eye exam, when I complained of blurriness, my doctor said 'Well you must have had the vision of an eagle before cause you still have above average eyesight'. One the second eye exam a year later, my doctor said, 'Its called age'.....lol.

Take care of yourself and please post your results.

 

[robbiehatfield]

If everyone's really THAT concerned about the FDA seeing anything on this health and safety forum, why not make it only accessible by members?

Robbie

 

[Wormwood]

I do the same Zip, if I or someone I know has a health problem they are living with (non emergency) Ill check it out online and even ask a couple online resources to find out how serious it might be. I am currently a student, with new crappy delivery job, I have no health insurance yet (just moved here). Coincidentally I am trying to find out a problem I've had that started last year with my eyes. Got a problem where if i just wake up and am rushed and noticed it sometimes happens when i am stressed out in an argument I go cross eyed almost. I cant figure out which eye it is. If i cover one eye i see, focus and concentrate just fine. Something scary that I've been experiencing a couple times in this last year. I am just praying I land a decent enough job so i dont go in debt as soon as i get it checked out. Even though i already am in debt =\

 

[seminolewind]

OP... just to throw a little humor out there...

After I started vaping, my vision got blurry as well.

I got worried and went to the eye doctor.... Turns out, my vision was blurred from reading the forum so much to learn about e-cigs! I was reading so much that when I looked away from the computer.. everything was blurry! He prescribed some totally unsexy computer reading glasses! 8-o
Vision has been fine ever since. True story!

I have that too!!!! Too much computer reading!
To top it off, vaping does dry my eyes out sometimes, esp with the non stop air conditioning. I used to go outside to smoke in the humidity of Florida. Now I don't so I can feel the difference, esp at work

 

[seminolewind]

Jim, no matter what it is, thanks for sharing. We should all feel free to share any info, symptoms, etc here. As we are all still learning.
Like I said before, my eyes got worse when I started vaping because I stopped getting "rehydrated" from the humidity outside when I'd go out to smoke, it's really bad at work where it's real dry from the ac. And now I'm on the computer all the time and getting some more eye strain from it.
I think you're doing the right thing by cutting back on nicotine for now and seeing your doc.

 

[nickmcdoz]

I've had the same symptom, but only very temporarily. It's almost like double vision. This is off of 8mg, puffed infrequently.

 

[BARENETTED]

If everyone's really THAT concerned about the FDA seeing anything on this health and safety forum, why not make it only accessible by members?

Robbie

That would be nice, but how can you decide who is FDA who when registering? For all you know, I could be working for the FDA!

 

[robbiehatfield]

That would be nice, but how can you decide who is FDA who when registering? For all you know, I could be working for the FDA!

True. In fact, I have no doubt that there are FDA employees registered here as members. I tend to get suspicious when I read posts that manage to sound reserved in the hope of coming off as *credible* while simultaneously showing a tendacy towards justifying the position of the FDA in a consistent *devil's advocate* kind of way. I could be all wet too, but I don't think so..

Robbie

 

[BARENETTED]

No Robbie - I totally agree with your thinking. Hence, my original reply.

 

[HK45]

Wow - I wasn't expecting such varied responses!

I hadn't considered the allergy angle, so thanks to Sgupta and others who suggested it. It's definitely worth exploring, so I've just ordered some low nico VG liquid and will be seeing an optician next week. Hopefully, all will be resolved soon. Thanks also to Wormwood for the supportive comments. Whilst most folk here seem to be both friendly and helpful, I do appear to have rattled a couple of cages!

Back in June, I quit smoking and began vaping. Both have significant chemical consequences and as a result, I feel totally justified in placing them high on the suspects list for causing my recent eyesight problem. Had I instead, significantly altered my diet, I would be trawling a nutrition forum. I certainly didn't come here seeking conclusive medical advice, although I'm very grateful for the numerous helpful suggestions and support. I simply asked if anyone had experienced similar symptoms to me. Something from which I can gain some perspective.

In posting, I hoped for (and welcomed) varied suggestions and advice, I really didn't expect to be rudely accused of talking BS and providing weapons for a government agency! This thread is in a section devoted to health and safety issues with regards to vaping. Many other members have reported a huge variety of symptoms without being leapt upon. Surely, we should feel free to discuss any potentially related health issues regardless of how serious they are?

Anyway, apologies for the counter-rant and thanks again for the support.

Jim

ZipJim,

Thank you for your "counter-rant". I began vaping in February of this year. I was a heavy smoker (2 - 2 1/2 packs a day!). Well, since I started vaping my lungs have improved amazingly but, just as with analogs I vape very heavily with the strongest vapor producers and highest mg available.

What I'm getting at is, for the past month I have been experiencing something new that might be very serious. Like you, I'm reluctant to see a doctor if there's not too much blood! But, it seems to be getting worse and more frequent. I was going to post asking if anyone else had experienced anything like it, but now I know better.

The forum should just eliminate this section because it has become basically useless with the FDA paranoia and the ever- present .......s.

Anyone, including myself, should just go to a doctor if something changes instead of relying on our "friendly fellow vapers" for any advice or direction. Do the people getting outraged think that their responses aren't doing more harm than the question? Telling people not to seek advice and not just recommending that they see a doctor is the real bullet, not the question. Why not "shake" some sense into yourselves before replying like a .....?

If anything, the people making those kinds of posts are the FDA ringers!

 

[Robert]

My vision is going too- ahhh this is better....

maybe we are old eh? 41 is that old?

Over nic-ing maybe?

Eye Doctor recomended.

 

[paise]

I am not sure if my post will help or hurt but it might put some fears to rest anyhow.

Many who have read my posts on other threads here at this forum are aware of the fact that I have a retinal eye disease and problems with my optic nerves in addition to complications from lupus (SLE) and Sjogren's disease with all the effects that come from those two diseases as well.

Often I forget to blink my eyes even though I can't really read the forums. I do use zoom program built into my screen reader but I have to say that about 98 to 99% of the time I have speech going in the background because I miss so much when I try to use the zoom program to physically read on a fairly decent eye day; however, it probably looks rather hilarious to the outsider because I must sit within a few inches of the screen to see even with the zoom since the initial problems with the disease began with loss of peripheral vision. It's why I watch movies hundreds of times over again. I always find something I missed the first 99 times I watched it.

I began vaping on July 7thh of this year. Even with the deterioration of my sight from other means, I have not noticed anything remotely close to a drop in vision that is not 100% steeped in the medical conditions.

Also, I can tell my eyes are drier than usual especially when the air conditioner comes on or a fan is blowing in the room ,which is most of the time. Even in the winter months I must run a humidifier b/c my eyes become so dry that the medication I take to help with tear production doesn't work completely. All this eye strain and dryness problems leads to migraines and major headaches but it is important to note that I've had chronic migraines since my early teens. My oldest child (she's 21 so not technically a child anymore) has migraines too but they are not chronic thank goodness; however, my youngest daughter suffers with migraines too and if they continue at the pace they are coming at now, there is a high likelihood she may be more than simply predisposed to migraines, she may have chronic migraines as I do. I'm crossing my proverbial fingers in hope she doesn't as this is one thing I would not wish on my worst enemy but only time will tell. I've been through so many migraine medications I've lost count. Now, when they go into a rebound stage where I can't abort them I have to go to the hospital for an injection of Dilaudid and Phenergan because the standard demoral or stadol doesn't work anymore. The lupus and Sjogren's causes terrible pain so I am using the pain patches with breakthrough pain meds to alleviate pain when the patch just doesn't seem to be enough though even that is not enough to guarantee I will feel better or the migraine will stop. It usually takes an ER visit, an injection, then the loss of four to five days because it knocks me out for that amount of time.

I'm just adding some food for thought. Anyone experiencing dry eyes might want to check into getting a bottle of Refresh Liqui-gel. It works wonders on dry eyes. Still check with your eye doctor but use Refresh Liquigel in the interim. It 's the best drops for the eyes and it really does moisten them. I've lived with those eye drops for years and swear by them. They most certainly 100% make a difference.

Also, if your house appears to be dry, add a humidifier to raise the humidity level inside. That will help in more ways than one. It will help moisten sinus passages, clear dry eyes, and keep your skin more hydrated too although you need to be drinking about 8 glasses of water a day too because the humidifier can't do all the work if you aren't hydrating your body by drinking water each day.

Just a suggestion. It comes from living with Sjogren's for all these years. hope this can help somebody, maybe lots of somebodies...

 

[LngTymTobaccoUsr]

Hey ZipJim your not alone I have posted a thread on the side affects that I experienced also. you might want to read it it's under Weird scary side affects. Now I didn't just experience blurred vision it was worse. People that switch from tobacco to these need to do it in moderation till they know how they are going to react to these devices.

Kevin

 

[stevo_tdo]

Yeah, I had the same problem. Had to cut down my pg juices with vg. Helped some, but with the old recipe JC vg it was completely gone. I can't stand Jc's new formula so I'm once again in search of a good vg juice.

P.S. Eyedrops seemed to help me.

 

[HK45]

ZipJim,

Just to clarify, I wasn't referring to vision problems either. These are much scarier to me, at least.

Well, I'll just wait to see what the Doc says.

Good luck!!!

 

[toffles]

Hi, I've never experienced vision problems with e-cigs but this got me thinking. What would happen if i dripped some juice into my eyes? As far as I know no one has ever tried this, but I'm very curious about it. In the past I've gotten some juice in my mouth and it seems to give me a nice buzz. I feel like it's its only a matter of time before people start experimenting with direct application of nicotine liquid, whether it be to the mouth, eyes, nose etc. What your guys thoughts on this?

 

[SudokuGal]

Hi, I've never experienced vision problems with e-cigs but this got me thinking. What would happen if i dripped some juice into my eyes? As far as I know no one has ever tried this, but I'm very curious about it. In the past I've gotten some juice in my mouth and it seems to give me a nice buzz. I feel like it's its only a matter of time before people start experimenting with direct application of nicotine liquid, whether it be to the mouth, eyes, nose etc. What your guys thoughts on this?

Okay...where's the last line? The one that says "just kidding." I certainly hope you were just kidding. The experimentation doesn't sound like a good idea,no matter how curious one might be.