Seeing green tint (chartruese color) in morning upon awakening

[camille9917]

This tint of green-overall not blotches, has happened before in the past a few times.  My vision is not deteriorating, but I'm trying to link it up to something in my diet (or lack of).  It occurs immediately upon awakening, but only lasts a few seconds, then everything is normal. I'm 50 y/o woman with no health problems (thyroid exception). My BP is usually normal between 120 -130 but can spike shortly a bit higher.  I take no BP meds.  Could it be a spike in BP? I had some unusually salty food last night.  Or could it be something else?

[Healthlou]

Why would this just start happening. Never had this before

[JohnHaganMD]

It may be that the awareness is sudden but its been there before. It could be that the lighting circumstances have changed. Or it could be co-incident as the two most commonly asked question in Medicine are 1. Why me? 2. Why now?  

[JohnHaganMD]

Let's go with it them. Happy dozing

[paul_r_c]

For me, everything light colored, mainly white, appears light green for a few seconds after awakening.  This seems to occur mainly upon awakening from a nap.  At the age of around 63, I began to take naps every day; and have noticed this color shift.  Occasional  naps before this age did not produce this effect. Vision tends to grow dimmer with age. Maybe the red pigment depletion effect developed during day time sleep becomes stronger with my age.

[JohnHaganMD]

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[Adigirl369]

I just woke up and everything was a bright chartreuse color. I was facing away from the lamp and it was 4am. My body felt numb all over and I felt incredibly weak. I needed to take my medication but just couldn't move. My arms especially felt tingly as if the were asleep. I felt worried and closed my eyes and a minute later this shock went through my body. It was horrifying. It made me scream. I am a 48 year old female. I take thyroid medication along with numerous other meds. I ate before bed but haven't drank anything most of the day except for coffee. I am really freaked out. My arms still feel a little numb. It's now 5:15am. When I opened my eyes the green was there. Everywhere. There was no light shining in them. What's happening to me?

[JohnHaganMD]

Call your personal office immediate and demand to be seen today, it he/she cannot consider going to an ER. If your arms are still numb or you have another other stroke like symptoms you may need to have someone take you to ER or call 911. It's not the eye symptoms that are as worrisome as numbness in arms.

[Waterlawyer]

I am a 67 year old chronic intractable migraine sufferer and woke up this morning with a bright yellow hue like a film over everything then it changed to bright green.  It lasted about a minute then returned to normal.  After the yellow I thought I hate yellow and that's when it changed to green.  Did anybody get a diagnosis?  Thanks.

[JohnHaganMD]

Anything that is present on awakening but gone in a minute is rarely serious.  As this and other discussions point out usually due to eye changing from dark adaption mode to light adaptation mode.