I suddenly cannot see clearly anymore. I can read and type with my reading glasses on but anything more then a meter away becomes blurred. It's causing me to feel dizzy and walking is an ordeal instead of a pleasant time breathing fresh air.
I looked it up and there are many possible causes, including disturbing ones. One possibility is the muscle relaxant drug I received to recover from the tension in my neck. I decide to stop taking those pills immediately as a preventive measure. My neck is improving anyway with regular physiotherapy with only 10 days left before flying to Japan for the next treatment.
As I wrote yesterday, my surgeon checked me up and said the muscles and nerves were working fine, so it must be something affecting the muscles temporarily.
As this double vision continued for another day, I looked for eye exercises to help the eyes recover from whatever the surgery had done to them: Eye Asanas, in other words yoga for the eyes.
I start doing this and I feel the eye muscles in the left eye ache as I do it and afterwards focusing improves. This gives me hope so I will continue with this. On Tuesday the next visit to my surgeon is planned for another cleanup. I hope focusing has improved before that.
Exercise 1: Place your index finger about 12 inches away from your eyes, gently gaze at the tip of your finger for 5-10 seconds. Now gradually and slowly move your finger closer and closer to your eyes. Don’t poke your eye out! Practice this for 3-4 minutes, a few times a day. Afterwards, blink or squeeze your eyes shut to relax them.
Exercise 2: When you are outside, practice looking at something very close, then gradually move your focus further and further away. This works best for me when I’m walking down the sidewalk somewhere, or in an open area. Practice this for 30 seconds or so at a time whenever you’re outside.
Many of our eye-related problems come from a lack of tone and flexibility in the eye muscles. If we practice eye asanas, yoga for your eyes, we can reduce or eliminate these problems.
Exercise 3: Move your eyes as far upward as you can. Take one breath in and out slowly. Move your eyes as far downward as you can, count one breath. Repeat this 4 times.
Exercise 4: Move your eyes as far to the right as you can, count one breath. Move your eyes as far to the left as you can, count one breath. Repeat 4 times. Remember to close your eyes and rest after each set of 4 repetitions.
Exercise 5: Move your eyes as far up and to the right as you can, find a point in your vision to focus on, count one breath. Do the same thing in the far left bottom point in your field of vision. Repeat 4 times.
Now do the same thing in reverse, top left and bottom right, 4 times. Don’t forget to blink and relax your eyes if they become too strained.
Exercise 6: Now we’re going to practice eye-circling. This is easy, we’re going to start by moving our as far upward as we can, and then moving them counter-clockwise. Do this slowly and make a full circle of your vision. Repeat in the opposite direction.
Palming: This exercise is crucial to relaxing the eyes after we have completed our exercises. It has a very calming effect and relaxes the nervous system.
Sit up straight, back erect, focus on your breathing. Now take your hands and rub them vigorously together for 15 to 20 seconds. Put your palms over your eyes, facing you, fingers interlaced. Remember to breathe deeply. When we do the palming exercise we relax the eyes and send a current of electricity through them, stimulating the nervous and circulatory system, releasing tension and improving our eyes performance.
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