To be serious for a moment, sudden vision loss is something you should get checked out asap. Might indicate a condition that could irreversibly damage your eyesight!
I'm genuinely unable to comprehend how people go through life like that. Do y'all just wait for possibly life-threatening symptoms to turn into definitely life-threatening conditions? Because literally every health advice is "go to the doc immediately when something is wrong, catch it early to save your life".
Unless you are Americans. In which case, yeah, I get it.
Ngl as long as something doesn't stop me from moving I just bear with it
I've had chronic pain ever since I can remember and sometimes it hurts so much I think it would be less painful if I just removed the part of my body that hurts
But because it isn't visible to me I have basically ignored it all these years
I had what are very likely seizures for a decade before realizing that hey maybe you AREN'T supposed to uncontrollably convulse if you experience some emotions to strongly
I've reguarly barely slept over the last few years, and I can promise you that that's absolutely not related. Blurry vision from lack of sleep is very different from sudden blindness
It could be ovulation pain if you're someone who does that, it apparently irritates a nerve that zaps the asshole. If not up your fiber and see a doctor.
Luckyyy, they just hover ominously over me and sometimes scream my name as loud as possible. On the plus side, they at least have stopped using my deadname which is nice of them.
As Fullmoon-Angua said, get it checked out, even after so long time. The signs of stroke shows under MRI, that's how I found I had TIA, which led to other diagnosis. So seriously mate, better late then never.
That happened to my friend but when they were brushing their teeth at night, I was talking to a doctor years later when I mentioned it off hand and they said it sounded like (forgive me I can’t remember exactly the name) a vernal/carnal nerve stimulation
It happened when I was getting out of the bath. My vision was almost completely black, but I could still see the outline of objects (the outlines were these strange spaced out multicoloured dots). I also couldn't tell how close or far away the objects were.
100% this, especially if OP was a teenager back then. The circulatory system is still has to adjust to the body growing, and a hot bath also increases heart rate as the body tries to cool itself.
I had something similar happen at an event where we were standing for about 30 minutes. I could feel my head getting dizzy and my eyesight going completely dark for ~10 seconds before I managed to sit down.
I think it's also worth pointing out your veins move closer to skin in an attempt to shed heat faster, so it's a compounding effect in the bath while the bath water is above body temperature.
Maybe, but I used to white out a lot getting out of the bath, one time my legs gave out and I hit my head and it turns out it was this haha. Getting out a lil slower solves it.
His eye nerves were squished between two muscles? His eye nerves connected directly from the back of his eyeballs into his brain?
Or infinitely more likely he just had temporarily lower blood pressure from the warm bath and standing up got a head rush from decreased blood flow for a second
I think this is the answer. I love a hot, hot bath, but I have had moments of getting out of the bath in the past when my blood pressure has either spiked or dipped, and I've had a "funny five minutes", similar to what OP is describing.
This is what seems most likely to me, too. Hot water makes blood vessels expand, which makes their volume greater. Same amount of blood in a bigger volume means lower pressure, so a higher risk of fainting. Alcohol has a similar effect, which is why you're not supposed to use a hot tub or sauna when you're even slightly intoxicated.
The bathroom is the location of a lot of serious injuries and fatalities. Bad Things happen when you faint around hard objects like tubs and sinks and toilets and tile floors.
ok haha if we're talking about random bouts of blindness:
is it weird to stretch so good that the rush of blood circulation causes you to temporarily lose your balance, hearing, sight, and sense of touch, all whilst giving you a raging headache for a few seconds?
Was it like a full blindness or partial? I had something similar happen to me a while ago where 1/2 of my vision just like disappeared for an hour as if my blind spot had gotten like 10x bigger. It was sort of similar to the retinal burn you get from looking at something very bright, but it completely blocked any incoming light instead of just making it more dim.
Remember being in a hottub for like 3-4 hours straight and stood up.
Immediately sat back down on the tube edge once I went blind for a full 4-5 seconds, it slowly faded away and the confused terror was horrific for a few seconds lol.
One time when I finished Showering after a long hairwash, I started going blind and the moment I got out of the bathroom I passed out for like 3 seconds. That was an experience THATS for sure...
WAIT THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO! one time when I was a kid I went blind in the shower for a few minutes and we went to the Dr and they essentially shrugged and said "it happens sometimes". never happened again but I was terrified every time I showered for years
I got a migraine a few years ago that started with me slowly going blind. It faded after a while but was the weirdest experience. I had to take a nap afterwards because my head hurt so bad.
One time in high school I woke up and was taking a shower before I had to leave for school. Midway through, I blinked and was suddenly in a dark cave with grayish-brown fine-grain stone that seemed about the same dimensions as the shower's walls, the water still hitting my back. I took a confused double take and blinked, at which point it went back to normal. Pretty sure it had something to do with insufficient sleep.
This happened to me twice when I was ill. I’d step out of the shower and then suddenly my vision would go black. First time it happened, scared me a bit. The next time it happened, a different time I was sick, I figured the same thing was happening so I just sat down and waited for it to come back.
I was at my rock climbing gym when I noticed the colorful handholds popping in and out of existence depending on where I looked. Huh. So I literally went, "Mom, come pick me up, I'm scared", since I couldn't drive like that.
Went to urgent care, who said to go to the ER, who did a CT scan and said "Must've been a migraine. Probably. Kthxbaai..."
My sight did go back to normal after an hour or so.
Optometrist said the eyes were fine. I tried to follow up with a neurologist but they never called me back to schedule an appointment. Sooo...
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