At the start of 2019 I caught the flu really bad. I get sick a lot but usually not badly, I'm also early 20s but this got me bad and I was taken to the hospital and put in an isolated room. Was there for the whole night, given some fluids and medication and sent home in the early hours of the morning. I slept for about 12 hours and woke up with only about 40% of my vision.

I freaked out but thought this was part of the flu so just tried to watch some TV (having so little vision threw me off so much I ended up just listening to it). A small bit of vision comes back over the two weeks I take to recover so I continue assuming its just flu even though I have these huge blind spots shaped like rings and my peripherals are slowly failing. By February I realised this wasn't going away and went to the hospital, who said I was fine even though a few of the eye tests they had to keep telling me I read something wrong and to try again. Went to the opticians a few weeks later because I lost more peripheral vision and got migraines and they saw something in my eyes that made them urgently send me to A&E in a different hospital. They also say nothing is wrong but keep seeing me because my fields tests are coming back terrible.

Not much has happened between then and now. At the end of 2020 I went to a specialist and they told me my eyes are really healthy, so my brain is now being looked to as the perpetrator. Just had an MRI recently that apparently I've been on a waiting list for since mid 2019 and I'm waiting for the results. My peripheral vision is continuing to recede, I get awful migraines daily, and I have to kind of navigate my life around the blind spots in my vision which is really tiring.

I have no idea what could be wrong with me, but I think the specialist got that I was panicked when they told me my eyes themselves were fine because they told me things like brain tumours are usually first spotted in eye exams and with the amount of exams I've had it probably isn't that.

In 2015 after returning from my honeymoon with my wife in March, I began getting migraines. I noticed a small circular shadow in my left die. Went to the hospital, was there for two weeks when I went in I had most of my site. After two weeks in the hospital I was told that I had idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Basically my brain had started to swell and that swelling put pressure on my optic nerves and crushed them. I have not had any vision issues my entire life. At the age of 39 I went totally blind. That was six years ago. And I’m happy to say that I am still here and thriving! I do have moments where I get depressed but then again don’t we all.
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In 2017 my vision start to go away, day after day I noticed a small decreasebut it was normal because my diagnostic, I start to increase thesize of the text until I start using a screen reader and a cane back in 2018, I still havea little bit of vision but i can see only colors, shapes, and light, no text or details or stuff like this, and by the way I was born with low vision too, my right eye was never good enough.

I was becoming known as the very clumsy one at university. Went to the optometrist on a lark while we where hanging at the mall and was told I was blind and my friends who where there where like "that tracks"