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Morning all..
Having had COVID at the beginning of the month, and being left with the usual fatigue, muscle soreness and carp lings due to being asthmatic, i went for a walk along local beach yesterday now being 7 days after end of isolation, just to get some fresh air.
Weirdly my prescription for my eyes has been the exact same from the age of 26 to now being 46, never changed, but yesterday being he first day outside and looking at things in the distance more, my eyes were really struggling to read signs 15-20m that before COVID i could read easily with my glasses/contact lenses, it is as if my long sightedness has dropped 2 fold overnight, to the point where i asked my wife to drive home as i didn't trust myself and vision was a little blurry?
Wondered if it is something anyone else had suffered with? I have made an appointment for eye test, but that isn't for another 3 weeks.
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I had really achy eye muscles when I had it - whilst it didn't seem to change my eyesight long term focussing constantly felt the same as attempting to focus whilst tired. This (randomly googled) link seems to indicate that "Unfortunately, COVID-related muscle pains can sometimes last much longer, and are commonly reported in people with long COVID or post-COVID syndrome. " so maybe that's what's going on?
Thanks Branes.
Hoping it is a temporary thing, did have some weird symptoms with COVID including skin feeling weird to touch, even t-shirt moving against body felt weird, so hoping it is something that will pass with time..
If you have spent more of recovery reading your phone or watching a computer monitor then your eyes will take time to adjust to looking at distance things...might need more time away from screens and just looking at scenery.
(not medically trained or first hand experience of Covid, but the fuzzy eyes for distance stuff I get daily if I spent far too long staring at a screen)
@Dickbarton - i don't think so, i sit in front of PC for work and not had any change in eyesight for decades, whereas whilst i was riddled with COVID, i was mostly lying on sofa with TV on but not really watching it if that makes sense, so probably used screens a lot less than normal.
Covid-alike symptoms back in April accompanied by swelling of my ankles, had a test which came back negative, two blood tests and a chest x-ray couldn't pin down exactly what it was.
As the symptoms were clearing (after a week of antibiotics) I'd noticed my eyes, particularly my left eye, had got very sensitive to sunlight so booked an appointment with the optician. Visit to the eye clinic and a six week course of steroid drops as I'd got uveitis.
Worth a check up just in case.
(Un)funnily enough this has gone through my mind as well. I've recently had my eyes tested post Covid... but in my case I'd never had my eyes checked before (probably 25 years before!).
I've noticed a general blinky blinky stare squint going on, definitely can't see as clearly as before. However, I've had the check done and the optician has basically said she thinks it's just age - I'm 46 too - and it's that stage of your life when things started to go south.
Personally, I think it's been exacerbated by Covid along with a few other things. I'm more worried about hitting 160 bpm when I'm walking the kids home from school 😉
I think my eyes went down hill post covid, and I ended up with glasses - but the optician said it was just age and amount of screen time many of us have spent over the last 18 months.
What ahsat said - mine have gone to pot over the last 18 months. I'm constantly doing the old man thing of sticking my glasses on my head to read anything closer than arms length. God I feel old but I doubt that Covid's to blame.
I think my eyes went down hill post covid, and I ended up with glasses – but the optician said it was just age and amount of screen time many of us have spent over the last 18 months
Interesting stuff. I'm the same but have difficulty focusing at either end.
However sometimes I can see okay far and other days okay near.
That said of I come off my phone for a while I see okay in the distance. But have noticed this in the last few months.
Almost like the muscles are tired at the the extremes.
Who knows so many overlapping factors.
Anecdotally impaired vision features quite frequently on long covid FB groups. See also:
https://www.optimax.co.uk/blog/long-covid-affect-eyesight/
Thanks BadlyWiredDog, interesting if slightly scary read! Don't like to think i have deprived myself of oxygen enough to cause degradation in my eyes! Makes sense though, still very breathless and went for a 3km walk yesterday just to get fresh at beach and heart rate was all over the shop and got very breathless just climbing a set of 15-20 steps. COVID sucks.... but not as bad as many others so shouldn't moan