Scott, Tess: I know you guys talked alot about eyes being a trigger. I went to see a new VRT last night who worked at the hospital I have been going for 7 months for VRT. To make a long story short my insurance stopped covering and she does this at home privately as she is on Maternity leave. It is a lot cheaper. She re-evaluated me and said I was in pretty good shape. She did not want to make light of how I feel. She said she saw a buch of slow eye tracking and movements in her test. She wanted me to track a few new visual excercises where I follow a bunch of letter on a piece of paper and where I track a ball I roll to each hand slowly and then faster. She also wanted me to go back to my eye doctor as sometimes if a eye perscription can help this it might reduce the other symptoms. I know both of you feel eye's trigger yours as do I. The first symptom I ever gad both times this occurred was my vision become blurred and out of focus.2 Neuro-Opthamologist saw nothing. Also my neuro-Otologist just prescribed me a patch for the back of my ears to see if this helps with the nausea. You where this for three days at a time.

Opinion:

Hope you both are ok. I am doing ok . From last year I am like 75 to85 %. I still do have 2 bad days a week...

Howie

Hey Howie,
thanks for posting those exercises. Im going to start doing them, I think it can't hurt. Do you mind telling me more about those exercises - how big are the letters and how many are there on the page. I assume you move the page from side to side and follow it. The ball one sounds easy to do - pass a ball from hand to hand and follow it with your eyes?

Sounds like you are getting sorted out with regard to vrt. Good to hear aswell that you have made progress from last year - its good to look back and see the improvement made. I know its very slow for you but 85 is a whole lot better than 75! Is there anything you are doing this year that you werent able to do last year - sports, going out, driving? I'll be interested to hear if the patch helps, I sometimes close an eye - it feels sometimes like my eyes are fighting/boggling!

Hope you are having a good day, mine could be better but it could be worse!
Best wishes
Tesss

Tess :

Letters are around 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch. 10 rows of 10. You have your eyes focused on the 1st and last of each row and then move to the next two moving towards the center. You do this with both eyes and one eye. Another excercise which is more difficult you take the top left and bottom right and work your way up and down with each row. To bad we can not fax this or I would.

the ball thing is hard when you do it up and down with someone and they dont roll this in the same place.

As far as things I can do. I do everything just the symptoms are less intensity. I go to the gym . Big Areas and Dark areas do not bother me as much. Reading and the computer. the only bad symptom that still affects me is nausea a few days. Hopefully these new excercises will help. My doctor also prescribed me a patch for the nausea on the back of my ears. I'll get that at the end of the week...

My day is pretty good... Hope yours gets better....

Howie

Howie,
Thanks for the info. So when looking at the grid - would I do this 10 times - one on each row, or 10 times in total, and moving one row down each time? With the ball I understand now - I roll it along the floor between my hands and also get someone to roll it and to me. Sorry for the questions.

I misunderstood your patch - I thought it was a patch you put over an eye!!! I wondered if you were going to wear it everywhere!! Thats me not reading properly. I need to track sentences properly let alone a grid!!

It does sound like your dr is trying to help which is good. Hope the patches help. Im lucky I dont get that nauseaus that often but when I am I find it so hard to bear with. The only thing that I have heard of to help that is to drink ginger tea, but I am sure you have tried that.
My day is better than it was at the start, its 9pm here in the uk.
Best wishes
Tesss

Tess:

yes you move it one row down at a time. And one row to the side at a time when you do the other excercise. I have tried Giner everything tea, tablets, nothing really helped... Hopefully the patch will... Have a nice night....

Howie

Hi Howie,

Thanks for the info. I should probably work on eye VRT to reduce the conflict between my inner ear and eyes. I've never really been consistent with VRT but maybe that's the only way to be able to handle different LCDs etc one day. I'll give it a go.

Best...Scott