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Vision Changes

Alternate Names : Changes in Vision

Vision Changes | Symptoms & Signs | Diagnosis & Tests | Prevention & Expectations | Treatment & Monitoring | Pictures and Images | Attribution


What are the signs and symptoms of the condition?

Kinds of vision changes include:

  • decreased sharpness of vision, which means either being unable to focus on objects up close or far away, or both
  • double vision, which means seeing two of everything
  • loss of peripheral, or side, vision
  • total loss of vision, or blindness
  • cloudy vision, which feels as though the person is looking through a dirty windshield
  • "blind spots," which means the person has areas of vision where he or she can only see blackness

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    Vision Changes: Diagnosis & Tests

    Author: Adam Brochert, MD
    Reviewer: Kathleen A. MacNaughton, RN, BSN
    Date Reviewed: 09/29/02









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