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>>11820287
I appreciate the response. About 3/4 year ago I experienced an episode that was particularly blinding, obscuring much of my vision with a strong distortion. First such incident that I can remember. I laid down and it calmed down within an hour or two and my vision recovered later that night. I looked it up and chalked it up to an ocular migraine but was still unsure because it wasn’t associated with pain. From there it has occurred infrequently and usually consisted of a small pin size dot around my left eye center vision, usually lasting several hours and gone by next morning. But I’ve started to experience them a bit more frequently and sometimes the distortion is larger but less severe.

No accompanying headache. I don’t think it is due to lack of movement because my training flights usually last only an hour and a half or so, and I’m usually not sitting when I teach ground lessons. Rubbing my eyes doesn’t cause any change, it isn’t on the front surface of the eye for sure. No family blood pressure issues, anemia or high cholesterol. My father had a small heart attack a couple years back but he’s approaching 60 years old so that may have been an age-related blood clot.

If my vision were to deteriorate in one eye I can live with that. I have taught a student who was completely blind in one eye and he was an awesome pilot with a special issuance medical. But not if this spreads.