I lost part of my vision today in my right eye. I've got absolutely no idea why it happened, but it caused me to flip out.
Essentially, I had some distortion in a ring around the perimeter of my right eye, and I had some loss of peripheral vision on the right side, as well.
I set up an appointment about twenty minutes after I first noticed the problem, but the symptoms disappeared another forty minutes later, well before I went to see the doctor.
My regular optometrist is out of town, so I went to see the people at Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute, who poked and prodded my eyes for an hour before deciding that since my symptoms were gone, they couldn't really tell me a whole lot. My eyes are in seemingly good condition, and the possible explanations they gave for why my vision would go all funky involved some bad things (luckily all implausible due to my symptoms) and some comparatively benign things that are really only problems if they happen again.
Whatever the cause, the nice people over at PCLI dilated my eyes so I've really only been able to read for the last hour or so. Oh, and the glasses.
Good thing you're feeling better. Hopefully it was just stress or something weird and it won't rear up again.
Yeah, totally.
My optometrist was pretty clear that it was some sort of disturbance in (the force?) the circulation that feeds my eye. Whether that was due to a dislogded blood clot (unlikely), migraine (also unlikely) or something else entirely is really unclear.