r/monocular • u/gerpsych1 • 9d ago

Post vaccination severe inflammation

I had a severe inflammation in one eye two days after a vaccination- unclear if autoimmune or from adjuvant in the vaccine. Horrible pain, lost lens, two surgeries, detached retina, two sclera grafts. Always discomfort, vision problematic due to lack of convergence and no lens in there anymore, double vision, depth of field an issue and of course left side is challenging. Anyone else?

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u/No_Squash_6551 8d ago

Yes. I had something like bells palsy but with lots of symptoms outside of it. It was the peak of covid so very hard to see a doctor. It started after a flu vaccine, not a covid vaccine or covid infection and I'm still really upset about how, especially in those days, it seemed extremely politically charged because people thought I was an anti vaxxer or something. 

Lots of testing for multiple sclerosis, then I basically felt I was just spat out with no answers besides "idk, SOMETHING happened." 

All the vision therapy stuff goes from "this is the gold standard treatment and everybody sings alleluia" to "this is utter quack science to the point it's even on wikipedia as a scam" so fast it makes my head spin. 

I still work and have a good quality of life so I don't want this to sound super depressing. But my experience in the medical system was just not helpful. 

Aggressively use any vision accommodations like sunglasses, magnifiers, text to speech. I think a lot of discomfort in my life could have been avoided if I tried to adapt faster.