I had a real scare!

[jesse]

Glad you're okay

My mom had a TIA about 20 years ago, she's 83 now and still going strong. For her, she described it as a window shade being pulled down over the upper half of her eyes. My niece was there and called 911, she refused transport to the hospital but called me and had me drive her.

[Mini 9]

mjgkramer wrote:
Two days ago I was on the highway driving home from town. Approaching our turn off I suddenly had a thick gray “curtain” block the vision in my right eye and could only see out of the left eye. Normal vision returned after 5 minutes or so, just before I arrived home. I went into the house, took two aspirin and headed for the ER, 15 minutes away. The CT scan and blood test they did were OK but they said I had had a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) and should see our primary care doctor in the next few days. I saw him yesterday and he put me on Plavix, a blood thinner, in addition to the full strength aspirin I take every day. Scary.

In case you wonder, I have taken cholesterol medication and the values have been very good for many years, I eat a relatively healthy diet, and have never smoked, not even once. However for whatever reasons, I had to have a triple bypass in 2009 and had the left carotid cleaned out in 2010. It does not run in the family to the best of my knowledge and my 97 year old mother is still going strong.

I once went completely black/blind for about 10 minutes in a parking lot. No explanation I could ever come up with.

[Grateful11]

Glad to hear you're going to be ok.

A few months ago my peripheral vision was blurred in both eyes for about 10 minutes. I had a full physical
a short time later and all was well, never found out what it was. Kinda weird straight ahead vision was fine.

[GeneL]

I'm glad that you're okay. It seems that a lot more stories like this have been appearing lately, including my own.

Your description of how you handled this issue is information to be tucked away.

Please take good care of yourself. I don't want to lose any of my MRF friends. :oldfogey:

[blooz]

Never heard of TIA before. Glad you're okay and told about this, now I'll know what is going on if it happens to me and that I better do something about it.

I'm seeing an ophthalmologist in June about a double vision problem i have when i've been working or exercising.