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Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:39 pm**

So... overnight my rabbit was attacked by a cat. I broke up the fight, and noticed my rabbit had a weird leg injury.

So this morning I made a vet appointment, long story short - rabbit has a partially or very torn knee ligament (and is also arthritic, and has hip dysplasia <he's 8.5 years old>).

So I get some painkillers, etc, and am waiting to check out.

Suddenly, I noticed I have a blind spot in each eye, right below whatever I'm looking at. "Wtf? Blind spots only exist to the sides" Then I look at some other things... Wait, I've got blinds spots all over my field of vision..... I can see what's right in front of me, and there are weird blind spots all over the rest of my vision...

I pay, and get in the car... suddenly, in addition to spots, there are suddenly very fast-strobe-like tiny Christmas lights arcing across my eyes.

"Do I drive to the hospital? Do I call 911? do I go to my eye doctor?"

We moved recently, but still go to the vet near where we used to live... who happens to be about 1 mile from my eye doctor... so wtf, I drive over there.

I run in and go "I don't have an appointment, but I just had a change in my vision, and have lost part of it"

They make sure to get my new insurance card, copy it, give it back, and then rush me back.

Dilate my pupils, do an exam, etc... and it just stops. Vision goes back to normal.

good news -> just a scintillating scotoma. Not a stroke or anything...

But seriously freaked me out.

Mine didn't look like that though, it looked more like the bottom half of this:

Posted: **Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:54 am**

I went partially blind in my left eye a year or two ago while at work. If I remember correctly, I lost all vision to the left. Freaked me out.

I regained normal vision within 30 minutes and started to piece together what could have caused it to occur.

Sitting at my desk it dawned on me that the cause was one of those USB lava lamps that's actually nothing more than glitter in water. Working normally at my desk, it sat in my field of vision exactly where the blindness occurred.

That got tossed in the garbage and I've never experienced anything like it before or since.

Posted: **Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:58 am**

Did you get a headache? And did you kill the cat? I think more scary than freaky.

Posted: **Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:27 pm**

No headache. Apparently both my mom and dad have been getting this for years. My dad, being a doctor, knew what it was when his first one happened, so didn't panic.

Yes, I was scared. It was scary and freaky. Cuz the only way I knew of to have that type of vision loss was stroke.

No, the cat ran as soon as it saw me. Follow up: Our rabbit, Bear, died overnight. He was the most person-friendly rabbit we had (almost doglike), so it's hitting pretty hard. So he either got too stressed out by it, or there was some internal injury that wasn't diagnosed.

Posted: **Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:54 pm**

Oh no!

Posted: **Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:57 pm**

Sorry to here that. This is the worst part of having pets.

Posted: **Fri Dec 31, 2010 3:19 pm**

You should get a bear named Rabbit.

Posted: **Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:01 am**

I'll chip in on a reward for the cat pelt.

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:20 pm**

Scintillating scotoma. Ocular migraine.

Man this was hard to find.

And made me sad to read about Bear again.

Update: The cat was put down.

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:30 pm**

When I was about ten and my brother was about 9 we visited my aunt.
Every time we went back to the house we'd go out and play with the bunnies. My little brother was quicker than me and would always get the white rabbit. I'd choose one of the many brown ones.
One night we were eating BBQ chicken on the steps of the porch when my mom came up and asked how dinner was.
We said it was good.
She asked if we knew what we were eating.
"Chicken!"
Then she said, "No. It's rabbit."
"Where did they get the rabbit?"

The next morning my brother's white rabbit was gone.

To this day my brother remembers all of that story except for the part where his rabbit was missing the next day, which amuses me even more.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:19 pm**

Had this happen yesterday. Was unpleasant.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:33 pm**

I went blind in my left eye sitting at work one day. I might have mentioned this before.

I had a USB powered lava lamp, but instead of lava it was filled with glitter. It had been located behind me for a year, but one day I moved it to my left just within my peripheral vision. Later that day, I simply stopped being able to see out of my left eye for 20-30 minutes. I removed the lava lamp, and have not had the same experience since.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:40 pm**

You might have mentioned it in the 2nd post of this thread.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:23 pm**

I skim.

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