u/LavishnessDry1910

I am a 31 year old male. I recently went to the optometrist today for an ongoing problem with my eyesight. Normally my eyesight is quite good, but a few weeks ago I noticed one day that my eyesight was considerably blurrier in one eye than the other. this persisted for days until it got worse one day when the vision in one of my eyes got really blurry and I couldn't hardly see out of it. there was no pain but I decided to go to the hospital out of concern. they did a quick check and said that there was nothing physically wrong with me so they sent me home and told me to go to an optometrist. I waited patiently till I could see one, and while my vision did improve from what it was, it was notably still blurry. Today I finally managed to go to an optometrist, who looked at my eyes more closely and determined that aside from some very small cataracts (which he said should not be causing me problems) there was nothing wrong with my eyes. He told me he thinks it was an Ocular Migraine that caused the episode and told me to follow up in about a year. However my blurry vision still persists and hasn't been improving. I think he implied that perhaps my vision might come back to me but after some research online it doesn't seem like an ocular migraine should be effecting my vision for this long. Perhaps there was some miscommunication on my part when explaining my issue to the doctor, but I decided to ask here to see if anyone more familiar with this sort of thing can give me some insight as to whether or not my ongoing vision issues should have been getting better by now since I'm at a loss of what to do if my vision doesn't improve on its own.

I am 31 years old. About 9 months ago I started noticing that my memory seemed to be getting worse, specifically in regards to remembering words. I would suddenly find it a regular occurrence where I couldn't remember a specific word for something, like it was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't remember. While it used to only happen every once in a while now it was happening several times a day, enough for me to notice that my memory had gotten worse. While this was concerning, what was more concerning was after some months later when I noticed I started having trouble speaking occasionally. I would find myself more often stumbling over my words, sometimes I would have difficulty even pronouncing normal everyday words. This again was concerning until about a month ago I noticed my reading ability seemed impacted too. I was starting to incorrectly read things, like reading sentences a bit out of order, frequently misreading the words in a sentence and having to reread to correct myself, and I've noticed that I misspell words more frequently than I used to. Around the same time I started to trip up in my speech more often too, and its now commonplace for me to accidentally combine words when speaking (for example saying "cleaking clearly" instead of saying "speaking clearly"). Eventually I got concerned enough to mention it to my doctor who ordered a brain MRI and referred me to a neurologist. I have done the MRI and did see the neurologist, they had said that the MRI looked normal and hes ordered a few tests for me in the meantime. That said I'm still worried about my condition because I can feel that theres something wrong with me thats seemingly getting worse but I have no idea what it could be. I am posting here because I am worried about the possibility of dementia and I was wondering if anyone here with experience could give insight into whether or not I might have it. Once again I have gotten an MRI that came back normal and I'm currently seeing a neurologist, but I wanted to hear what people on here think while I wait.

I take 25mg of hydrochlorothiazide, 80mg of valsartan once a day and 25mg of metoprolol twice a day. I also take 1.25mg of vitamin D2 once a week. I have hypertension and high blood pressure and high heart rate, which is what the medicine is for. I do not drink or smoke or use recreational drugs in any capacity. I've also been out of work for almost a year now.

I should add, another (possibly) related incident that happened about 2 weeks ago was is that I noticed that my eyesight was blurrier than normal, I wrote this off at first until a week ago where I went to the hospital after I seemed to have lost a bunch of vision in one eye after it got really blurry all of a sudden, I was sent home not long after when they determined that nothing was physically wrong with my eye and my vitals were normal. My eye had recovered since then but its still blurry and my eyesight isn't what it was before.

I am sorry if this isn't the appropriate place to ask.

I am 31 years old. About 9 months ago I started noticing that my memory seemed to be getting worse, specifically in regards to remembering words. I would suddenly find it a regular occurrence where I couldn't remember a specific word for something, like it was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't remember. While it used to only happen every once in a while now it was happening several times a day, enough for me to notice that my memory had gotten worse. While this was concerning, what was more concerning was after some months later when I noticed I started having trouble speaking occasionally. I would find myself more often stumbling over my words, sometimes I would have difficulty even pronouncing normal everyday words and would be unable to pronounce it correctly for a while, despite my attempts to say it correctly. This again was concerning until about a month ago I noticed my reading ability seemed impacted too. I was starting to incorrectly read things, like reading sentences a bit out of order, frequently misreading the words in a sentence and having to reread to correct myself, and I've noticed that I misspell words more frequently than I used to. Around the same time I started to trip up in my speech more often too, and its now commonplace for me to accidentally combine words when speaking (for example saying "cleaking clearly" instead of saying "speaking clearly"). Eventually I got concerned enough to mention it to my doctor who ordered a brain MRI and referred me to a neurologist. I have done the MRI and did see the neurologist, they had said that the MRI looked normal and hes ordered a few tests for me in the meantime. That said I'm still worried about my condition because I can feel that theres something wrong with me thats seemingly getting worse but I have no idea what it could be. So I decided to post here to see what the opinions of some posters are as to the possible causes to what my problem is while I wait to take more tests.

I take 25mg of hydrochlorothiazide, 80mg of valsartan once a day and 25mg of metoprolol twice a day. I also take 1.25mg of vitamin D2 once a week. I have hypertension and high blood pressure and high heart rate, which is what the medicine is for. I do not drink or smoke or use recreational drugs in any capacity. I've also been out of work for almost a year now.

I should add, another (possibly) related incident that happened about 2 weeks ago was is that I noticed that my eyesight was blurrier than normal, I wrote this off at first until a week ago where I went to the hospital after I seemed to have lost a bunch of vision in one eye after it got really blurry all of a sudden, I was sent home not long after when they determined that nothing was physically wrong with my eye and my vitals were normal. My eye had recovered since then but its still blurry and my eyesight isn't what it was before.