Old 01-13-07 | 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by IanInSD
I had the something similar happen with both my eyes actually. The wind was so cold that it seriously irritated my eyes. I kept cleaning my sunglasses because I thought it was fogging up. It was until I got finished and checked my eyes out and they were just bloodshot. It took a bunch of eye drops and car heater to finally lift the 'fog'.

Ian in SD
What you may be describing (I have undying curiosity and have a compulsion to look up EVERY question I see):

Question:

I have a film that moves around in my right eye. When I blink, it moves off, but drafts back. My vision is blurred until I blink then clears.

Answer:

You may be describing 2 different things. The film over the eye could be dry eye or a floater (vitreous degeneration due to aging). Floaters are collagen fibers that move around inside the eye as you change your gaze/head position. (It's like a snowglobe being shaken up).

Film over the eyes may come from dry eye. If the eye is allowed to dry on the surface, the front layer of the eye (cornea) has a roughened surface. The tears fill in gaps on the surface making it smooth like ice. This smooth optical surface allows light to refract through the cornea very precisely. If the surface has dry patches, light will refract through inconsistently causing blur or double vision.

See your eye doctor if your vision constantly blurs, eye turns red or becomes painful.
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