Ever wake up and one eye is a little blurry, it won't focus? So you rub it and take a shower and it's fine. Well, my right eye still refuses to wake up. No recent injuries, no chemicals got in there, got a good night's sleep, it doesn't seem irritated. Really a pain in the butt working on a computer with one eye. I turned 48 overnight, so I guess this is "welcome to being one year older you old fart!"
Go get that checked out, you shouldn't "lose an eye" overnight. Might be something more serious you need to address.
Seriously, go. Today.
Yes, one of my eyes does exactly that.
Never had it last more than a half hour or so. But seriously, get it checked out ASAP. There are some eye issues that cause irreversible damage very quickly.
Definitely get that checked out.
+1 for getting it checked out. That sounds serious. Can't think of anything not-serious that could cause that.
What everyone else said.
Could be a mini-stroke. Definitely not something you need to let go.
Are you dehydrated? My left eye does that when I wake up if I didn't drink enough water the day before. It's a weird floaty eye cheese thing.
But I'm not an eye doc and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Well I don't know about pinchvalve, but I see a Optometrist regularly. I suspect mine is relates to the cataracts I am busy developing.
Have had eye issues twice the past month in the same eye. First was a subconjunctival hemmorrhage probably due to blood thinner and heart stent meds and once that started clearing up the second was a stye causing slightly blurred vision which is now clearing up. Ya, sucks getting old. Go see an ophthalmologist.
A few years ago, I went to my eye doctor, who is exactly the same age as I am, and told him that I woke up and couldn't see things anymore. After an exam, he said that I have presbyopia. I asked what that meant and he said, "It means that we are forty five."
Look it up.
Stop playing with yourself. Listen to your Mom.
Yes - get it looked at. NOW.
I have two coworkers who had similar symptoms that turned out to be semi-detached retinas (or something inside the eye). They caught them early enough to have them fixed, but they were told if they had waited much longer it could have been permanent.
^Retina detachment is one of the terrible possibilities I was thinking of.
Yep, my thoughts exactly. Especially if you have any black spots at all, get to an eye doctor. Retinal detachment is seriously no joke. You'll want to have it treated - or ruled out - ASAP.
A coworker had to spend 6 weeks in bed staring at the ceiling after a partial detachment.
Duke wrote: A coworker had to spend 6 weeks in bed staring at the ceiling after a partial detachment.
Same for both of mine. They put a "balloon" inside their eye to press the retina back into place.
One is older - in his mid-late 50's. The other is younger than me - about 40. Back to work now, but the younger guy (more recent) has to be careful about what he does to make sure it doesn't detach again before it completely heals.
+1 on retinal detachment.
Go Get looked at!! I had macular degeneration where the entire center of my vision went away in one eye.... Yeah not good. But they were able to do treatments and my vision is all back. I was told its common umong older people, and extremely rare in young ones (i was 22ish at the time)
I wont tell you how bad the treatments are.... but at least i am not 20/200 anymore.
Sudden or significant changes in your eye rate an immediate trip to the doctor.
I had some retinal detachment last fall. Scary stuff. Waiting could have cost me vision in that eye. That eye still doesn't work quite as well as it did, but I get by. I'm just glad it works at all.
FWIW, my view of the surgery was truly bizarre - I was awake through all but the first few minutes.
Yeah, get professional guidance. If it can be fixed with a hammer, welder, duct tape or a nice night out with flowers and all, we can help.
Limbs can be reman, boobs can be fabbed, eyes are OEM ONLY!
Since he's hopefully getting medical attention by now, can we focus on him rolling his annual clock over? 
Medical science can do wonders in replacing limbs and what have you. But it can't replace your sight.
Please get it checked out. And then report back. I know we are not your mother. But we worry and want the best for you. And want to know that your ok.
The day after my 30th birthday I woke up with enlarged blind spots in both eyes. Like hugely enlarged, dangerous to drive as cars and pedestrians disappeared in the black hole in my vision. Went to the Eye Outpatients clinic (great name) and eventually diagnosed as Optic Neuritis without M.S. Took a year or two to settle down but that was scary. Put your trust in the experts and get it checked, MRI, dye job whatever it takes.
My decision was to get a good night's sleep and if it was still blurry this morning, I would go straight to the eye doctor. I woke up with normal vision restored, so I am chalking it up to being so incredibly busy currently (an awards show, preschool graduation, my birthday, my daughter's birthday, memorial day, HS Prom HS graduation, and more in one week) and being out in the sun and taking a motorcycle ride and swimming in a pool. BUT, I will be moving my regular eye appointment up to next week based on the advise here because I cherish my eyes over all my other senses.
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