Well put Jumpinjiminy, I know all I have to bring here is my experience, encouragement and maybe a funny story.
Redwing - thank for all the detailed info, it helps me process all this info and try to keep it organized in my kooky (add riddled mind). It made me laugh when you mentioned using correct medical terminology, like using the correct names for private parts with my girls when they were little. Despite our best efforts they came up with their own silly names!
My visual problems, what I now know is cranial nerve V5 numbness/burning and headache (8 wks now) are what got me to the Dr. The visual problems are what keep me going. Today is my last test at the Ophthalmologist. Then I go to my 2nd Neurologist and then he is sending me to a Neuro-Ophthalmologist at Yale/New Haven.
After buying 3 different pair of reading glasses I had that gut feeling that my problems weren't refractive. So far I have found out that:
- My distance vision, though pretty bad, hasn't changed
- With glasses on my left eye does not focus
- Without glasses left eye barely focus
- Color vision has been dimished in the blue range
- Contrast sensivity has definitely been dimished
- Depth perception has been diminished
- Night vision is getting worse
- Lights at night all look like big starbursts
- Even a little glare makes it hard for me to see
- Loss of some vision lower left field of vision
- Enlarged blind spot in both eyes
- Eye pressure a little elevated (glaucoma) but Dr feels that is not enough to cause all the above.
- When I do try to read the lines of print move up and down ever so slight
I am resigned to the fact that the damage down can probably not reversed and I am hoping we can keep it from getting worse.
Redwing - thank for all the detailed info, it helps me process all this info and try to keep it organized in my kooky (add riddled mind). It made me laugh when you mentioned using correct medical terminology, like using the correct names for private parts with my girls when they were little. Despite our best efforts they came up with their own silly names!
My visual problems, what I now know is cranial nerve V5 numbness/burning and headache (8 wks now) are what got me to the Dr. The visual problems are what keep me going. Today is my last test at the Ophthalmologist. Then I go to my 2nd Neurologist and then he is sending me to a Neuro-Ophthalmologist at Yale/New Haven.
After buying 3 different pair of reading glasses I had that gut feeling that my problems weren't refractive. So far I have found out that:
- My distance vision, though pretty bad, hasn't changed
- With glasses on my left eye does not focus
- Without glasses left eye barely focus
- Color vision has been dimished in the blue range
- Contrast sensivity has definitely been dimished
- Depth perception has been diminished
- Night vision is getting worse
- Lights at night all look like big starbursts
- Even a little glare makes it hard for me to see
- Loss of some vision lower left field of vision
- Enlarged blind spot in both eyes
- Eye pressure a little elevated (glaucoma) but Dr feels that is not enough to cause all the above.
- When I do try to read the lines of print move up and down ever so slight
I am resigned to the fact that the damage down can probably not reversed and I am hoping we can keep it from getting worse.
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