There are a variety of symptoms for eye diseases. The typical ones are blurry view, glaring, narrower view, distorted view, pain in one’s eye, or feeling heavy eyelids. We will discuss the relation of these symptoms and potential eye diseases in this article.
Blurry or Dim View
If your vision gets blurry or dim, you might want to doubt if it is a sign of the following eye diseases.
CataractThis is a disease that makes your lens cloudy. At its early stage, there is no subjective symptoms in most cases, there will be blurry, dim, or dazzling symptoms appearing as the stage progresses.
GlaucomaThis is the biggest reason for loss of eyesight in Japan, caused by the damage on optic nerve and narrows the field of vision field. Sometimes it rapidly progresses, but it usually develops slowly and unconsciously. Highly recommended to go see a doctor regularly after 40s.
Age-related macular degeneration, AMDThis reduces visual acuity, caused by degradation over aging and deformation of macular which functions very importantly when viewing an object.
Diabetic RetinopathyThis damages on the organization called retina caused by diabetes and reduces visual acuity. This disease is also a big reason for blindness for adults as well as glaucoma.
UveitisThis is an inflammation occurs on uvea which is an organization with very many blood vessels composed by such as iris, ciliary body, and choroid. The symptoms varies from blurry vision, red eyes, pain in the eye, distorted vision, or muscae volitantes which causes a vision a mosquito seems to fly in the air.
*The symptoms listed above could also be for other diseases.
If you have a glaring symptom, you might want to doubt if it is a sign of the following eye diseases.
CataractThis is a disease that makes your lens cloudy. At its early stage, there is no subjective symptoms in most cases, there will be blurry, dim, or dazzling symptoms appearing as the stage progresses.
UveitisThis is an inflammation occurs on uvea which is an organization with very many blood vessels composed by such as iris, ciliary body, and choroid. The symptoms varies from blurry vision, red eyes, pain in the eye, distorted vision, or muscae volitantes which causes a vision a mosquito seems to fly in the air.
Dry EyeThis is a disease damages the surface of the eye due to the lack of tears and unbalancing secretion of tears. The symptoms such as blurry, tiring, and drain of tears can be observed as well.
*The symptoms listed above could also be for other diseases.
If your vision got narrower, you might want to doubt if it is a sign of the following eye diseases.
GlaucomaThis is the biggest reason for loss of eyesight in Japan, caused by the damage on optic nerve and narrows the field of vision field. Sometimes it rapidly progresses, but it usually develops slowly and unconsciously. Highly recommended to go see a doctor regularly after 40s.
Retinal DetachmentThis disease peels off the retina inside eye-ball and lowers your vision. As signal symptoms, you may sometimes see glimmering objects moving or flashing objects.
BlepharoptosisThis is a condition that upper eyelid sags down and unable to open easily and narrowers vision field. As you unconsciously try to open your eyes with lifting eye blow, you may start to have chronic stiff shoulders or neck, or even headaches.
*The symptoms listed above could also be for other diseases.
If your vision makes things look distorted, you might want to doubt if it is a sign of the following eye diseases.
Central serous chorioretinopathyThis is a disease that the yellow spot inside retina collects water and often found among men in their 30s to 50s. The symptoms are such as the center of vision looks dark or white, or object looks smaller than the actual size.
Age-related macular degeneration, AMDThis reduces visual acuity, caused by degradation over aging and deformation of macular which functions very importantly when viewing an object.
UveitisThis is an inflammation occurs on uvea which is an organization with very many blood vessels composed by such as iris, ciliary body, and choroid. The symptoms varies from blurry vision, red eyes, pain in the eye, distorted vision, or muscae volitantes which causes a vision a mosquito seems to fly in the air.
Retinal DetachmentThis disease peels off the retina inside eye-ball and lowers your vision. As signal symptoms, you may sometimes see glimmering objects moving or flashing objects.
*The symptoms listed above could also be for other diseases.
If you have sore eyes, you might want to doubt if it is a sign of the following eye diseases.
StyeThis is an acute suppurative inflammation caused by the bacterial infection of gland where fat or sweat comes out.
KeratitisThis is cornea (black area of eye-ball) infection, and it caused a variety of subjective symptoms such as pain or feeling of foreign objects.
Dry EyeThis is a disease damages the surface of the eye due to the lack of tears and unbalancing secretion of tears. The symptoms such as blurry, tiring, and drain of tears can be observed as well.
*The symptoms listed above could also be for other diseases.
If you feel your eyelids heavy, you might want to doubt if it is a sign of the following eye diseases.
Dry EyeThis is a disease damages the surface of the eye due to the lack of tears and unbalancing secretion of tears. The symptoms such as blurry, tiring, and drain of tears can be observed as well.
BlepharoptosisThis is a condition that upper eyelid sags down and unable to open easily and narrowers vision field. As you unconsciously try to open your eyes with lifting eye blow, you may start to have chronic stiff shoulders or neck, or even headaches.
*The symptoms listed above could also be for other diseases.
Summary
In this article, we discuss about eye diseases and their symptoms. If you already have symptoms, there might be some diseases caught your attention.
The symptoms of diseases introduced above are the only typical examples, if you feel any unusual sensation in your eyes, please consult your eye doctor.