Is it supposed to make you feel all weird when you get your eyes dilated? Like all over? It has been a few years since the last time I had it done (I've been busy the last three or four years, on other stuff), so I don't remember. Driving home with everything all hazy and white from the weather was rough, and once I got home, I needed to sit in my chair and wait until I started to feel normal again. I can't even really describe what was off. It was just... weird. Pissed off cats and dogs while I just sat and rocked, with my eyes closed, until 45 minutes past dinnertime. Harvey sat on the back of my chair, flicking me in the head with his tail (hard) at about 50 beats per minute until I finally fed them.
All the close inspection they did of my eyeballs showed zero defects. Well, other than the pre-existing vision correction needs. No macular degeneration or whatever it is that plaquenil causes. I've been on it for almost six years for the lupus, and the doc said after about five years, I need to see him yearly while I'm taking it. I just nodded, keeping to myself the question of whether he meant "come more often because you've been on it a long time," or "come less often because you were supposed to be coming every six months." I worry that it was option B.
At the risk of showing off how the irritation of two kinds of drops, plus a field of vision test, made me look like I'd been punched in the face, here is how dilated I was after more than an hour since the drops, and several minutes of sitting at home. My eyes are still tired now, at bedtime.
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