u/AwarenessMother825

Hi all, my wife had a visual migraine (dancing kaleidoscope) for the first time a few months ago and got an updated prescription earlier this month for the first time in 5 years. Her prescription had gone from being the same in both eyes with hardly any correction at all to there being a .75 difference between the eyes (+1.00 and +.25). She got the new reading prescription filled and immediately felt terrible -- headache, motion sickness, dizziness, and she had trouble focusing with the glasses on. She tried to push through for two days, wearing the glasses for a couple hours each day, assuming she just needed to give her eyes the chance to adjust, but her eyes didn't and since that first day, her eyes no longer work together to focus automatically. Her eyes are constantly going out of focus every 3 seconds or so and she has to reset her eyes and force them to focus constantly. This constant unfocused vision has led to constant dizziness and motion sickness. The optometrist didn't seem concerned and said that it could take a few weeks for the eyes to adjust and that she should just keep wearing them as much as she can tolerate them. The problem is that the constant unfocused state and accompanying motion sickness are constant regardless of whether she has the glasses on or not. She picked up her new prescription on August 7 and she has been living with these debilitating symptoms (she's unable to do her work, which requires a lot of reading and computer work) since then. We bought a Brock string so she could do convergence insufficiency exercises but that hasn't improved anything. Is it possible that this is all just a migraine that is impacting the eyes only? Any advice for how to deal with this?

Hello, I learned recently that I have very high Lp(a) (299 nmol) despite having a total cholesterol count of 183 mg (somewhat elevated LDL of 108). Over the course of the last 5 weeks I've made healthy lifestyle changes, working out 5-6 days a week (pilates, resistance training, yoga, non HIIT cardio) and starting every day off with a 40-minute walk in my local park (fair amount of incline). I also entered a calorie deficit to shed 10 lbs (my goal is to go from 125 lb, 5'0" 41F with a decent amount of muscle mass already to 115 lb) and have lost 5 lb. I modified my diet (I was already vegan and whole foods based, not eating out at all) to cut out coconut and keep my saturated fat intake in the single digits each day. I've already seen substantial changes in the mirror and I feel great! But my blood pressure has gone down from 112/70 to being in the 80s/60s and I've also brought my resting heart rate down from the 80s to the 60s.This puts my diastolic number below the J curve and the research I've done online seems to suggest that my low diastolic pressure is increasing my heart disease risk when it's a result of my attempts at decreasing that risk. I'm not feeling particularly lightheaded or dizzy and don't think I'm experiencing any adverse effects from this blood pressure reduction. I am not on any medication. Is my new low blood pressure something I should be worried about? Thanks for your thoughts!

I am a big fan of pollinators and have a healthy respect and appreciation for wasps, which have been sorely tried by my getting stung twice in the last 3 days by a great black wasp, with multiple stings each time that have drawn blood and been very painful. The attacks happened in the same spot each time -- walking on a paved path to enter a local park. I was a couple yards away from a flowering bush that I never tried to touch or disturb, and never saw any wasps as I walked by -- just heard a loud buzzing by my head before cursing and collapsing from the pain of the stings! Any idea why a solitary wasp would attack me out of the blue like this? I was walking both times in the earlyish morning wearing all black exercise clothes. I want to keep appreciating the wasps and understanding why this happened to me would help me do so!