has anyone noticed blurred vision even when bp and blood sugar is normal- when i put my hands out in front of me i see 20 fingers instead of 10. This is just so bad

I don't get double vision but it can be blurry sometimes. I also get eye strain where I close my eyes and they water. I originally thought that I may need glasses (my work is mostly on the computer)but I got my eyes tested and they were normal. I don't know if it has anything to do with D/A?

Sue - when I told my family doctor about an episode of double vision, that probably lasted less than one minute, he got all excited and sent me for an MRI. Caused a lot of worry and upset for nothing. The double vision occurred on a day after I had hardly slept all night because of the pain in my hip. I have had cataract surgery in both eyes, at a fairly young age (53)due to my doctors back in Kansas giving me steriods for many years to control severe allergies before we had some of the newer allergy medications. The opthalmologist corrected me to have "mono-vision". I see far with one eye and near with the other. Combined, I see fairly well even without glasses. I think I had the episode because I was so tired. The eye doctor said that not everyone's brain can adjust to this type of correction but luckily I did. The family doctor sent me to a neurologist even so and he said that having this 2 times in 6 months is not that much to worry about. He said that he wanted to see me again is it started happening more frequently. So, I guess frequency of your episodes would be the next question. Do you have any type of vision correction like mine? Have you seen an eye doctor recently? Are you diabetic? Have you ever been told that you have a "lazy eye"? It was upsetting the two times it happened up me so I would understand your concern. Have it checked out, better safe than sorry. - Kay

Hi....I had double vision, and what caused it for me was a blockage in the Subclavian Artery. That blockage caused Subclavian Steal Syndrome....blood flowing backwards out of the brain. You can read a bit about it here.

http://tinyurl.com/4hy99o

Might want to get that checked.

One of the signs I get that I'm going completely 'potsy' can be double vision (but I don't always get it). I get hotter than usual, my vision doubles, and I start feeling like I'm fighting gravityX10. And I can drink a litre of water in seconds. I've never had it when I've been having my blood pressure taken so I don't know what my blood pressure is doing nor am I aware of my pulse at these times. I just know to get on the floor quickly and lie still. It works for me. But any new symptom I get I always let my pots doc know. Always tell your doc about anything new.

It might be something caused by your dysautonomia or it could be something else entirely. I've been told I have to be very careful not to put everything that happens to my body down to POTS.

I have always had problems with vision. I've had tunnel vision, seeing spots or bright sparkles, and even everything going black to the point that I couldn't see anything for a minute. My vision problems have happened both at normal times and on symptomatic days where my pressure drops. Most of the time I can lay down for a minute on bad days, but on normal days there isn't anything I have found to stop it.

I started having blurred vision about 2 months or so ago. It turned out that I had developed a toxicity to some of my meds that was causing neurological effects. Once I stopped the meds, the vision problems stopped (of course, everything else has gone haywire but that's the way it goes I guess!!). Just something to consider - meds can do weird things to our systems.

Hi - I'm new to this site and have MVP. Over several years I have had intermittent double vision lasting for a few seconds to, at most, a few minutes. If I close one eye (either eye) the double vision disappears. It is often associated with some headache but usually nothing so bad as to need analgesics. I wondered if it was a type of migraine but now I am considering if it might be part of the MVP syndrome and dysautonomia. Has anyone else had this problem?

research occular migraines. i have them and have experienced most of what was described here, without pain.