Re:suddenly very blurry vision/answer

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> I would love to hear answers to this as well.

Thank you to everybody who replied on and offlist about this post.

I went to see my Neurologist yesterday and I got a " real answer " , for

me at least. The bottom number on my blood pressure was very high

yesterday, despite meds that should make it chronically low. This is

something that happens to me when I am in a lot of pain...and I'm at

max dose and that really limited the options...so we decided to try

an Occipital Nerve Block of 5 injections over one entire side of my

skull. There is some risk and it definitely had some initial side

effects, but it was a huge relief from a chunk of my pain almost

instantly. This morning my blood pressure is back to normal, a lot of

the " brainfog " is gone, AND I had NO blurry vision this morning! It

wasn't the answer to all my problems, and nobody knows how long it

will last, but right now I'm just happy that it worked.

From what I gather, the head injury that got my chiari/SM diagnosed

also smooshed my occipital nerve (both sides?), my mild chiari is

also constricting it (both sides), and the " wing " on C2 vertabra is

chronically " tipped " and keeping the nerve smooshed, and very

inflamed on the right side, so we did the nerve block over there to

see if it would work for me. It definitely worked. It was very nice

to get some sleep last night. And it was such a delight to wake up

this morning with my vision clear again. My blurry vision was due

to " Occipital Neuralgia " .

Rozanne