Clare,
? I just wanted to describe my wife's experience and how it is
somewhat similar to yours.
About a week or two previous we had to put down our much-loved dog
due to kidney failure. Then she had to have a breast biopsy and xray
scan which took about a half an hour. She was very stressed out due
to both of these situations.
During the biopsy she had to lay on her left side on a hard table
and was told not to move. She was very uncomfortable but could not
move. Two nights later she suffered NAION in her left eye. Initially
no one knew what it was. The first optometrist just Googled her
symptoms to find out more. 2 weeks later she got to see a neuro
opthologist who spent another 10 days sending her for every test in
the book to rule out everything else. No sterioids by then.
?? So Stress plus pressure on the eye plus it was found she has
"disc at risk" in both eyes. This was 5 years ago. Little change but
some improvement since then.
Dean
On 2/18/2023 12:18 PM, Clare C via
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Hi All,?
2 days before
my NAION episode I did note some blurring/rippling in my visual
field that resolved.? It
is this area that is now affected permanently so in hindsight
something was already going on within my eye.? On the day of my NAION
episode I had a massage.? While
prone with my head was resting in the cradle, I suffered eye
pain/pressure in my right eye which resolved with repositioning.? (I've had massages for
over 30 years due to a back issue and never experienced eye pain
with a massage prior to that day).? That evening, several hours later, I noted
the visual defect in my right inner eye that persists to this
day.? My
ophthalmologist told me there may be a connection between
crowded optic disc and venous congestion leading to compartment
syndrome and NAION but most of the time the cause of our NAION
is unknown (as we all know).?
He?advised me to avoid laying my head in a massage
cradle and to try and avoid exercises when I work out that would
have the blood pooling in my head.? I think that is a reasonable suggestion.? He did suggest that I
may want to pursue better control of my HA¡¯s.??
?
Something upset
the eye¡¯s autoregulation, I will never know for sure.? I suspect
it was a combination of many factors that led to my NAION
episode, a "perfect storm" so to speak.? I too suspect there is
a relationship between have migraine HA and NAION, perhaps it
sets us up for developing NAION (along with our crowded eye
structure).? Hopefully there will be more research in this
area.???
