Massive problem for me: Eye floaters / Sudden spells of Fatigue

[Smarky]

I've been suffering from this for quite awhile now and it's something that is completely crippling me, it's ruining my life and making what I want to do so difficult! it's stopping me performing cause my performances are so patchy, sometimes I can work for a few hours and then it strikes, sometimes it hits straight away.

When I feel like this I can't think or concentrate and I get very confused / frustrated very quickly, so it has been very hard for me to nail down what is going on.

I've recently been able to pin point a few things about it which let me to do some research.

I see these strange stringy things in front of my eyes, they are difficult to notice but when i feel like this I can see them clearly, not at other times. I researched this and apprently this is called "floaters"

This seems to strike seemingly randomly, but generally a few times a day and will generally last for a few hours, making most days productively useless.

However, the puzzling fact to me has always been I do not suffer this apart from when I'm at home, trying to work. When I am actually at work, no Problem, when I am out with friends, no problem, only when i am at home is there a problem.

I read online about Anxiety, now to me I don't understand this and the idea of me having that seems crazy however when i read more from the BBC website:

* easily lose their patience

Absoutely! When this strikes and i am working on something i have very little patience, it needs to work and work straight away. Again wehn it does strike it's fine, like when I am out with friends I have lots of patience, I can queue anywhere for hours for example.

* have difficulty concentrating

Heck yea! When it strikes nothing i can do , i just can't focus or make sense of anything and it just gets worse.

* think constantly about the worst outcome

I have a little problem with this. Perhaps more than i realize, but i'm not the big "downer"

* have difficulty sleeping

This usually tires me out so no, however when It hits and I feel like this I certainly can't sleep although I feel tired. (I have no problem sleeping at night)

* become depressed and/or

Yes!

* become preoccupied with, or obsessional about, one subject

Well this is the thing, the entire time I am at home I am obsessing over doing great things, how to do it, the correct system I need to use, what i need to do, what I need to learn. All the time I am at home I am focused on that and all the time I am at home I feel like this!

physical symptoms. These can include:

* excessive thirst

YES YES YES!! On days I feel like this the worst I am extremely thristy! Somedays I don't have much of a thrist, these are the days I am feeling like this a lot less!

* frequent urinating

Yes and it's getting worse!

* periods of intense pounding heart

I've had this a couple of times!

* pins and needles

Yes, although I don't get it an extreme amount I seem to get this more than anyone else I know.

I've set before to people I know how frustrated I am getting with this, because I either feel rubbish most of the day or when I don't feel too bad, by the end of it after working at home I feel rubbish again, which would explain anxiety, although i've never really thought about this.

[prasunsen]

ummm, have you checked yourself for diabetes? You have at leats 3 of the sympthoms - excessive thirst, frequent urinating, bad sleep. The eyes and concentration problems fit well too.

[VacMan]

Smarky,

Sorry to hear about this issue.

If it's such a "Massive Problem" for you, I'd honestly at least check in with a doctor first before taking advice from any forum.

Good luck in getting everything resolved.

[JoeGoldfarb]

Originally Posted by VacMan

Smarky,

Sorry to hear about this issue.

If it's such a "Massive Problem" for you, I'd honestly at least check in with a doctor first before taking advice from any forum.

no kidding.

but i will add my 2cents anyways (not to be taken as doctor advice ...
if this only happens at home, then maybe it's an environmental problem. stay at a hotel or friends house and see what happens.

[Matthew Shea]

The first thing I'd honestly do in your situation would be to see an eye doctor. Certain conditions will have certain effects on your eyes (diabetics are at risk for glaucoma, for example) so, given that you're having eye issues, an eye doctor can either rule out anything physically wrong with your eyes or alert you do a deeper problem that should be checked out.

[Jennihul]

Floaters are common and almost exclusively the domain of the near sighted. Your eye's focal point is inside the fluid of the eyeball instead of on the retina and that's just where the floater tissue is. If you have not always had it and now have it, along with your other symptoms I would run, not walk, to get tested for diabetes. Your cluster of symptoms is very concerning for that.

Anxiety is a drag, no doubt. I am a calm, carefree, happy person and I would be the last on the planet anyone would bet on to have anxiety but I think I have some brief anxiety issues now and then. I have my own cures that are very simple. Like I mostly feel it waking on Mondays for some reason even though I like my job and have no dread of Mondays. If my husband sleeps in bed with me instead of falling asleep on the couch watching TV, it doesn't happen. Only on Mondays. Weird.

Jennifer