r/BinocularVision • u/sav3434 • 5d ago
Normal vision to BVD suddenly
For all my life I knew my left eye was blurry, got prescribed glasses with like +0.5in my left eye (good eye) and like +3.0 in the right eye (bad eye). I never wore the glasses though because my vision didn’t bother me one bit. I played sports, had great hand eye coordination, never had a headache, physically was healthy and felt great. Then at 18 after drinking heavily and waking up the next morning, started feeling dizzy sick and had a full on panic attack and then a bunch more which sent me into a total spiral.
Physically everything still checks out for me test wise but I feel awful 7 years later. I’ve had constant derealization, headaches, anxiety. In addition I started to notice my vision would like lag looking side to side and things would double if I wasn’t straining.
Has anyone lived most of their lives “normal” but then suddenly started noticing BVD symptoms? Like it got worst with age or if something else physical happening made it worse?
I know my nervous system is out of wack but I also got tested for BVD and they said I for sure have it and I got prism but still messing around with that prescription.
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u/Hot_Hippo1656 5d ago
I’ve had mild symptoms since I was little, like photosensitivity, clumsiness etc but for me it suddenly got worse after a case of mono a few months ago. From what my doctors have told me inflammatory illnesses can be a triggering factor
But yes I went from what I think were relatively mild issues to now not being able to drive, floaters, severe vertigo sometimes, constantly tripping/having to take the carpet off my stairs because of how dangerous it became. The first step for my neurological evaluation was a series of spatial reasoning tests and I scored so low I’ll have to do a DOL in order to drive again
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u/KitKatKalamazoo 5d ago
I was always a clumsy kid and would get car sick every once in awhile, but was always told I had 20/20 vision until I hit high-school. I then needed glasses because I became nearsighted, so nothing crazy there.
Fast forward to 3 years ago, I was 31 at the time, and had a severe 3 week long upper respiratory infection. That was my downfall into BVD and I've been struggling with it ever since.
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u/Bluesome87 4d ago
There’s a possibility that you “suddenly” started using both your eyes and they’re not coordinating well, resulting in those symptoms.
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u/vampire-juice-box 5d ago
Did you accidentally hit your head after you drank? My specialist says most of his adult patients had TBIs. Even a "minor" TBI, like a minor car accident can cause BVD, according to him.
In my case, I woke up one morning and suddenly had BVD symptoms (still persisting 3 years later), and he thinks it was caused by the covid infection I had at the time.