When I started e-smoking a got an immediate visual impairment... Don't panic, read on...
I noticed, pretty much straight away after smoking my first e-cig that lights seemed very much brighter (especially at night) and text became noticeably more blurry. I researched this and discovered this visual anomaly has a name and is called halos.
The scary bit ... Suddenly seeing halos is often a symptom of glycoma (eye disease) and so I contacted my doctor immediately.
I was advised to get an immediate eye test which I immediately did. I was told my vision was fine but glasses would improve my situation (and that they had never heard of e-cigs and were very interested).
The guy doing the test did notice something odd however and so I got to have another test by a glycoma expert in 5 weeks time.
During that time I was on and off the e-cigs as as you can imagine I didn't want to go blind but also didn't want to smoke again.
When I saw the specialist it was confirmed that 5 weeks later my eye sight was as it was in the first test... Phewwww!!!!
Despite continuing to smoke e-cigs there was no deteriation in vision.
Want to know what happened? I bet you do!
Apparently, I had a pre-existing condition that means I see far less clearly when my eye's are dilated and smoking the e-cig dilates my eyes. I was shown this by the Optician demonstrating I could see much more clearly when looking through a tiny hole in a bit of cardboard at the screen than without it.
It appears that my eye's resting dilation is now wider than it was before and so this is why I now see less clearly than before.
I hope this helps people who may be searching this forum in the future and worried like I was. For your information, I've not taken the prescription offered as it won't harm not to (I was told) and now I know what's happened I'm not concerned and am happy to live with this.
I have not smoked a single analogue (real cig) for 2 months now and don't want to a single bit so will hopefully be around to answer any questions to this post for many years to come.
I noticed, pretty much straight away after smoking my first e-cig that lights seemed very much brighter (especially at night) and text became noticeably more blurry. I researched this and discovered this visual anomaly has a name and is called halos.
The scary bit ... Suddenly seeing halos is often a symptom of glycoma (eye disease) and so I contacted my doctor immediately.
I was advised to get an immediate eye test which I immediately did. I was told my vision was fine but glasses would improve my situation (and that they had never heard of e-cigs and were very interested).
The guy doing the test did notice something odd however and so I got to have another test by a glycoma expert in 5 weeks time.
During that time I was on and off the e-cigs as as you can imagine I didn't want to go blind but also didn't want to smoke again.
When I saw the specialist it was confirmed that 5 weeks later my eye sight was as it was in the first test... Phewwww!!!!
Despite continuing to smoke e-cigs there was no deteriation in vision.
Want to know what happened? I bet you do!
Apparently, I had a pre-existing condition that means I see far less clearly when my eye's are dilated and smoking the e-cig dilates my eyes. I was shown this by the Optician demonstrating I could see much more clearly when looking through a tiny hole in a bit of cardboard at the screen than without it.
It appears that my eye's resting dilation is now wider than it was before and so this is why I now see less clearly than before.
I hope this helps people who may be searching this forum in the future and worried like I was. For your information, I've not taken the prescription offered as it won't harm not to (I was told) and now I know what's happened I'm not concerned and am happy to live with this.
I have not smoked a single analogue (real cig) for 2 months now and don't want to a single bit so will hopefully be around to answer any questions to this post for many years to come.