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From: Vanny on 31 Aug 2008 12:19
I had an episode yesterday, which I have tentatively identified as transient
retinal ischaemia (TRI) and had the following symptoms:
1.. Visual disturbance like a glazing over appearing from lower visual
field side
2.. Flashing and flickering lights and light sparkles in the eye
3.. Bilateral worsening of visual acuity, seemed to be slightly worse in
the left hand eye
4.. Isolated, acute head pains perhaps lasting a second or so on the
Friday and again on the Saturday when I had the supposed TRI.
http://www.bmii.ktu.lt:8081/unrs/eyes?trg=pat&nr=1
This has never happened before. It was the flickering near strobing in the
lower half of my eyes and the starbursts, which were the most interesting.
The realisation the I was gradually going blind was less enthralling and the
whole thing lasted perhaps 3-4 minutes. Everything else appeared to be
working OK.

I realise that this is related to the thrombotic diseases, such as TIA
(transient ischaemic attacks), ischaemic strokes, pulmonary embolism, lower
venous embolism, etc. I would be interested to hear if anyone has had an
isolated TRI with no limb paralysis or overt dizziness (I was sitting down
at the time).

I spoke to a doctor, but he didn't think that it was necessary to come to
hospital - I also didn't want to go. I could walk, talk and speak fine, I
just couldn't see properly. I stopped my HRT immediately (ripped the patch
off), which we had increased significantly a month or so ago. I had drunk
over 2 litres up to the event on Saturday at around 14:45, but I am very
sedentary due to the Crohn's, short bowel syndrome and malaise/exhaustion,
etc.

I am going to see my internist this week, assuming that I can get an
appointment, and will make an appointment to see and ophthamologist and my
gynaecologist as soon as possible.

Vanny


From: MindfulMan on 31 Aug 2008 14:07
Stop taking any medications a doctor has given you. Most medications
have terrible side effects that doctors never even mention. They are
poisons.
From: MindfulMan on 31 Aug 2008 14:08
What medications are you taking if any?
From: neetac on 5 Sep 2008 10:00
Hi,

I regularly have "light sparklies" in my periferal (spelling??) vision, but
my eye specialist reckons its optic migrains related to a couple of "wonky"
optic nerves. I do get regular checkups and luckily have no other weird eye
problems (I know that we can get some doozies).

Neeta.
"Vanny" <Vannyss2003(a)antispam.com> wrote in message
news:g9egb1$227$1(a)newsreader2.netcologne.de...
>I had an episode yesterday, which I have tentatively identified as
>transient retinal ischaemia (TRI) and had the following symptoms:
> 1.. Visual disturbance like a glazing over appearing from lower visual
> field side
> 2.. Flashing and flickering lights and light sparkles in the eye
> 3.. Bilateral worsening of visual acuity, seemed to be slightly worse in
> the left hand eye
> 4.. Isolated, acute head pains perhaps lasting a second or so on the
> Friday and again on the Saturday when I had the supposed TRI.
> http://www.bmii.ktu.lt:8081/unrs/eyes?trg=pat&nr=1
> This has never happened before. It was the flickering near strobing in the
> lower half of my eyes and the starbursts, which were the most interesting.
> The realisation the I was gradually going blind was less enthralling and
> the whole thing lasted perhaps 3-4 minutes. Everything else appeared to be
> working OK.
>
> I realise that this is related to the thrombotic diseases, such as TIA
> (transient ischaemic attacks), ischaemic strokes, pulmonary embolism,
> lower venous embolism, etc. I would be interested to hear if anyone has
> had an isolated TRI with no limb paralysis or overt dizziness (I was
> sitting down at the time).
>
> I spoke to a doctor, but he didn't think that it was necessary to come to
> hospital - I also didn't want to go. I could walk, talk and speak fine, I
> just couldn't see properly. I stopped my HRT immediately (ripped the patch
> off), which we had increased significantly a month or so ago. I had drunk
> over 2 litres up to the event on Saturday at around 14:45, but I am very
> sedentary due to the Crohn's, short bowel syndrome and malaise/exhaustion,
> etc.
>
> I am going to see my internist this week, assuming that I can get an
> appointment, and will make an appointment to see and ophthamologist and my
> gynaecologist as soon as possible.
>
> Vanny
>


From: Vanny on 7 Sep 2008 23:52
Yes, I have been doing some reading around the subject and have come across
loads of people who report similar symptoms. That must be really unnerving
if it is happening all the time, although one could think about it as a
private firework show ;-)

I haven't had a recurrence of the episode and do actually attribute it to an
HRT overdose, so I see the gynae this coming Thursday and my internist saw
me last Monday and was very supportive. I declined any tests, because it
cleared up so quickly and I am not aware of any lasting ill effects. I will
also try and move around a bit more.

Thanks for your reply.

Vanny


"neetac" <neetac(a)bigpond.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:gYawk.34227$IK1.25501(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Hi,
>
> I regularly have "light sparklies" in my periferal (spelling??) vision,
> but my eye specialist reckons its optic migrains related to a couple of
> "wonky" optic nerves. I do get regular checkups and luckily have no other
> weird eye problems (I know that we can get some doozies).
>
> Neeta.
> "Vanny" <Vannyss2003(a)antispam.com> wrote in message
> news:g9egb1$227$1(a)newsreader2.netcologne.de...
>>I had an episode yesterday, which I have tentatively identified as
>>transient retinal ischaemia (TRI) and had the following symptoms:
>> 1.. Visual disturbance like a glazing over appearing from lower visual
>> field side
>> 2.. Flashing and flickering lights and light sparkles in the eye
>> 3.. Bilateral worsening of visual acuity, seemed to be slightly worse in
>> the left hand eye
>> 4.. Isolated, acute head pains perhaps lasting a second or so on the
>> Friday and again on the Saturday when I had the supposed TRI.
>> http://www.bmii.ktu.lt:8081/unrs/eyes?trg=pat&nr=1
>> This has never happened before. It was the flickering near strobing in
>> the lower half of my eyes and the starbursts, which were the most
>> interesting. The realisation the I was gradually going blind was less
>> enthralling and the whole thing lasted perhaps 3-4 minutes. Everything
>> else appeared to be working OK.
>>
>> I realise that this is related to the thrombotic diseases, such as TIA
>> (transient ischaemic attacks), ischaemic strokes, pulmonary embolism,
>> lower venous embolism, etc. I would be interested to hear if anyone has
>> had an isolated TRI with no limb paralysis or overt dizziness (I was
>> sitting down at the time).
>>
>> I spoke to a doctor, but he didn't think that it was necessary to come to
>> hospital - I also didn't want to go. I could walk, talk and speak fine, I
>> just couldn't see properly. I stopped my HRT immediately (ripped the
>> patch off), which we had increased significantly a month or so ago. I had
>> drunk over 2 litres up to the event on Saturday at around 14:45, but I am
>> very sedentary due to the Crohn's, short bowel syndrome and
>> malaise/exhaustion, etc.
>>
>> I am going to see my internist this week, assuming that I can get an
>> appointment, and will make an appointment to see and ophthamologist and
>> my gynaecologist as soon as possible.
>>
>> Vanny
>>
>
>


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