Cloudy vision after dive

[cdoyal]

After my first dive of the day, I surfaced and noticed a slight haze in one eye. It cleared up after about 30 minutes or so. I was diving Nitrox 32 and was within no-deco limits for the dive. I was in the water for about 40 minutes at an average of 75 feet with a max depth of 100'. The last 15 minutes was at 40' or above with a 5 minute stop at 15'. This dive was in the middle of a week of diving. All previous dives were with Nitrox and didn't include any deco dives. I wear hard contact lenses and determined it wasn't a dirty contact. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris

 

[Bison]

Sounds interesting. I have had some friends that use hard contact lenses while diving and they have had similar vision problems. They had a haze in one eye due to a conreal tear or worse a corneal ulcer forming. They all had pain with it. At this point most are in perscription goggles now, since diving with contacts is not a safe move. Hard lense at depth can increase pressure on the cornea and risk trauma and infection. I would give DAN a call with your symptoms. I'd be interested to know their response.

 

[Lloyd]

These is just general educational material not a specific Dr. Pt. Relationship. It is possible that your lens is not fitting properly. This is not allowing the tears to carry enough O2 to your cornea. If your lenses are old and not very oxygen permeable, your cornea will swell from lack of O2, and your vision will be blurry for awhile. When did you see your Dr. Last?
Lloyd

 

[cdoyal]

These is just general educational material not a specific Dr. Pt. Relationship. It is possible that your lens is not fitting properly. This is not allowing the tears to carry enough O2 to your cornea. If your lenses are old and not very oxygen permeable, your cornea will swell from lack of O2, and your vision will be blurry for awhile. When did you see your Dr. Last?
Lloyd

I was thinking lack of O2 to my eye as well. The lenses are one year old and fit better than my last pair. My sight in the one eye wasn't blurry as much as there was a haze or cloud in the center of my vision. There were no other symtoms like pain or discomfort. Hmmmm.....

 

[cdiver2]

Just a thought, whilst in Roatan I used a friends defog thinking it was a squeeze bottle I gave it a hefty squeeze...defog all over the mask. I thought I had cleaned it good but later found out no. A couple of min after the dive I had what can be best described as a Grey veil in front of my eyes, could this be it?

 

[cdoyal]

Just a thought, whilst in Roatan I used a friends defog thinking it was a squeeze bottle I gave it a hefty squeeze...defog all over the mask. I thought I had cleaned it good but later found out no. A couple of min after the dive I had what can be best described as a Grey veil in front of my eyes, could this be it?

As a matter of fact, this happened in Roatan but no, this wasn't the problem.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

I had that problem also, but after dive #1 it was in the left eye, dive #2 it was the right eye. It got worse and worse as the evening wore on. It was very itchy. The next day, it was so bad, as my eyes became very sensitive to light, and became teary. I did not go to work and made an appointment with the eye doctor. By the time I made it to the Dr.s office at noon, all the symptoms had vanished, and have been fine ever since.
I think the problem was the mask defogger. I do not wear contacts.

 

[cdiver2]

I had that problem also, but after dive #1 it was in the left eye, dive #2 it was the right eye. It got worse and worse as the evening wore on. It was very itchy. The next day, it was so bad, as my eyes became very sensitive to light, and became teary. I did not go to work and made an appointment with the eye doctor. By the time I made it to the Dr.s office at noon, all the symptoms had vanished, and have been fine ever since.
I think the problem was the mask defogger. I do not wear contacts.

you described my symptoms to a T just mine was two eyes. I got to a Dr right away and was blind for that day, not as bad the next day but still painful. Next day all gone. I saw a specialist when I got home and he said probably defog = chemical burn but no permanent damage. I have a feeling that if the defog gets into the skirt of the mask it is not rinsed out that easy.

 

[Lloyd]

Again, just educational. If you had no pain it is probably not chemical burn. The two probable causes are corneal edema or something going on with your retina(macula). It is also possible for bubbles to form under the lens and distort the cornea. Without seeing you, it is impossible to say for sure.
Lloyd