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How does anxiety cause blurry vision sometimes, eye strain, and halos around lights at night? my eye doc said everything was fine.

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Anxiety attacks: during anxiety attacks, most of patients have rapid breathing,leading to low Carbon dioxide (CO2) level in the blood ,causing blurred vision,numbness around lips and overall tingling feeling. usually patients are directed to breath in a bag,that helps alleviate such symptoms.

Dr Rothstein agreed

Answered 9/13/2014

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