I'm used to anxiety attacks, feeling on the edge of tears, that doomy feeling where you just think/know something awful is happening. My anxiety is usually expressed as this oppressive emotional cloud that just makes me depressed and jumpy, always worried things are going to go wrong.

I'm not saying I was coping well before but it was manageable, you know? Now though. God. I've lurked here so I'd read about visual changes but actually experiencing it sent me into my first true panic attack in months. How scary is it to not be able to see normally/correctly? And why isn't this more talked about by doctors? All of the medical professionals I've talked to over the years and no one has mentioned this to me.

I don't know what happened, one minute I felt crappy but coping and the next I could feel the vice grip of a panic attack and it was as if I as seeing floating dust particles everywhere and then even weirder, I got these splotches of a sort of fogginess like I was trying to see through dirty glass? And dark splotches too. The thought even crossed my mind that I was stroking out or about to discover I had epilepsy because this was such a sudden and out of the blue experience that my I didn't even think it was anxiety. 

I call for an emergency eye examination, they're healthy! I talk to a doctor, "oh you're just stressed". Thanks doc, but why didn't you ever tell me this could happen!

Do I laugh or cry about the fact that my anxiety finding a new way to express itself has guaranteed me to feel more anxious thus meaning I experience these symptoms more often? God help me.