Clandestine
01-03-2006, 12:20 AM
Below is a list of all the symptoms that im having. Ive been to tons of eye specialist and other eye doctors and they cant find anything wrong, but i know there is something wrong. I even had a MRI which came back negitive. I also fell off of a horse while at a show. I did hit my head pretty hard but i was wearing a $400 helmet. And i think i do have some head trauma. Also, when i was 5 or 6 i was running around acting like i was a horse and jumping up onto my bed, and somehow i managed to hit my head on the bedframe and cracked the right side of my forehead open. I bled alot and we had to call 911 but i just went to the hospital to get about 6 stitches and that was it. I think they should have done more to see if i had damaged something but they didn't. I also posted this on the eye problem forums but didnt get any responses.
Here are the symptoms im having (eye problems first, head last):
-Vision distortion in the right eye; it makes everything look big. This was caused when my frames broke and i had my lenses but into a new frame. Thats when i started to notice within an hour that the right lens was making everything look big. After wearing them for a week and a half (had to because i was on vacation) my right eye would make everything big with or without the glasses on. it still does this even though i have new glasses.
-Large amount of floaters, sometimes i'll see some that are small, round and a dark greyish color
-High light sensitivity
-Color gets light in both eyes ( MOSTLY THE RIGHT) when exposed to light. It looks like the color has been washed out of everything.
-It always feels puffy around the right eye
-Right eye is dry and it hurts/stings where the tear duct is
-When i blink sometimes theres a blurry coating covering my eyes
-I might be seeing flashes of light
-I tilt my head to the right and i look down alot ( i carry my head down)
-The right eye strains faster then the left
-I have a very hard time focusing on alot of things at once
-My coordination seems off
-I keep my face about 4-8 inches from a book or when writing, etc.
-I see blue-greenish halos around lights
-I cant judge distances or the size of things
-Night glare; lights glare alot
-Difficulty adjusting to light
-I dont like to look at light; i prefer the night or dark.
-I have pain/tingly feeling on the right and left side of my nose
-I hear a ringing sound in my right ear and sometimes the left. And ive been having this constant low ring/buzzing type sound too.
-I get this sharp pain on the top of my head
-Pulling, pain and pressure when i look some what far up, down, left and right
-Mild eye pain in right eye
-I always have pressure on the right side of my fore head, eyebrow area, around right eye.
-Feels like theres this cold fluid in my right forehead and the left.
-I keep having this numbing feeling on the back of my head
-I have pressure on the left side of my head also
-I had my eyes dilated 5 times within 3-4 months :eek: and the last time a had them dilated, both of my eyes got very red and bloodshot and after the drops had been in for more then a hour my right eye was still blurry and my left was fine. Then later on i noticed my pupil size was different. my right pupil was still very big and the left was normal. This feaked me out alot.
Thats pretty much it. Ive been runing all around from doctor to doctor and they say theres nothing wrong. But they there looking for the obvious things. And plus whenever i go they always do poor and sloppy jobs when looking at my eyes. I think that i got the vision distortion from when i had my lenses put into a new frame, but i think im having all of these other problems to from when i fell off of the horse.
But if anyone had an idea of what this could or might be please post.
I forgot to add im 15, and that im trying to go to a neuro-ophthalmologist or a neurologist.
Thanks,
Liana
Here are the symptoms im having (eye problems first, head last):
-Vision distortion in the right eye; it makes everything look big. This was caused when my frames broke and i had my lenses but into a new frame. Thats when i started to notice within an hour that the right lens was making everything look big. After wearing them for a week and a half (had to because i was on vacation) my right eye would make everything big with or without the glasses on. it still does this even though i have new glasses.
-Large amount of floaters, sometimes i'll see some that are small, round and a dark greyish color
-High light sensitivity
-Color gets light in both eyes ( MOSTLY THE RIGHT) when exposed to light. It looks like the color has been washed out of everything.
-It always feels puffy around the right eye
-Right eye is dry and it hurts/stings where the tear duct is
-When i blink sometimes theres a blurry coating covering my eyes
-I might be seeing flashes of light
-I tilt my head to the right and i look down alot ( i carry my head down)
-The right eye strains faster then the left
-I have a very hard time focusing on alot of things at once
-My coordination seems off
-I keep my face about 4-8 inches from a book or when writing, etc.
-I see blue-greenish halos around lights
-I cant judge distances or the size of things
-Night glare; lights glare alot
-Difficulty adjusting to light
-I dont like to look at light; i prefer the night or dark.
-I have pain/tingly feeling on the right and left side of my nose
-I hear a ringing sound in my right ear and sometimes the left. And ive been having this constant low ring/buzzing type sound too.
-I get this sharp pain on the top of my head
-Pulling, pain and pressure when i look some what far up, down, left and right
-Mild eye pain in right eye
-I always have pressure on the right side of my fore head, eyebrow area, around right eye.
-Feels like theres this cold fluid in my right forehead and the left.
-I keep having this numbing feeling on the back of my head
-I have pressure on the left side of my head also
-I had my eyes dilated 5 times within 3-4 months :eek: and the last time a had them dilated, both of my eyes got very red and bloodshot and after the drops had been in for more then a hour my right eye was still blurry and my left was fine. Then later on i noticed my pupil size was different. my right pupil was still very big and the left was normal. This feaked me out alot.
Thats pretty much it. Ive been runing all around from doctor to doctor and they say theres nothing wrong. But they there looking for the obvious things. And plus whenever i go they always do poor and sloppy jobs when looking at my eyes. I think that i got the vision distortion from when i had my lenses put into a new frame, but i think im having all of these other problems to from when i fell off of the horse.
But if anyone had an idea of what this could or might be please post.
I forgot to add im 15, and that im trying to go to a neuro-ophthalmologist or a neurologist.
Thanks,
Liana
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6foot3
01-03-2006, 08:55 AM
Hey Clandestine, yes go to a neuro so you can get proper testing also if its not in his specialty he'll recomend which specialist to see i.e. Ophthalmologist etc.. Good Luck !!
feelbad
01-07-2006, 11:04 AM
I am glad you are going to see a neuro opthamologist(i was just going to reccomend this type of doc to you),but kind of suprised you have not already seen at least a neurologist yet.this would have been the best place to start actually.but the neuro ops deal with eye problems due to trauma of the nervous system with an emphasis on brain injury.this is the type of doc i need to see next as i am having a ton of eye problems due to cranial nerve damage that stemmed from my spinal cord injuries.If I were you,I would bypass the actual neurologist and go right to the neuro op instead,at least for right now anyway.i DO feel this would serve your particular issues much better at this point.the neurologist would probably just refer you to a neuro op anyway.Let me know how your appts go.Marcia
Clandestine
01-10-2006, 02:47 AM
Ok, i have an update...not a very good one though. So i went to a neuro doctor, and it went absolutly horrible! the doctor was no help to me at all and he was very rude. And after that whole ordeal happened, i went to UCLA and saw a retnial specialist. He was also a very rude doctor and that appointment went horribal also. And both of them found nothing, which doesnt suprise me since they to such horribal jobs, and they just think your crazy because they cant find anything wrong with you. So now im going to try to get an appointment at UCLA again with a neuro-op which i know will go very bad and im just not going to take this BS from these doctors anymore.
And now i keep having this constant low ringing in my ears, and all of this pressure and numbing feelings around my head, and i have no clue what to do next. So it really just plain sucks. And im thinking i just have to get out of California and go out of state to better doctors, but who knows, they are just as bad. But i know that there has to be atleast one good doctor out there that can help me and not be rude to me or my mother. And tomorrow, on my crappy birthday, im going to my regular doctor so i can get some drops for my dry eye which was caused from having to get all of those dilating drops in my eyes.
Liana
:confused: :( :mad: :mad:
And now i keep having this constant low ringing in my ears, and all of this pressure and numbing feelings around my head, and i have no clue what to do next. So it really just plain sucks. And im thinking i just have to get out of California and go out of state to better doctors, but who knows, they are just as bad. But i know that there has to be atleast one good doctor out there that can help me and not be rude to me or my mother. And tomorrow, on my crappy birthday, im going to my regular doctor so i can get some drops for my dry eye which was caused from having to get all of those dilating drops in my eyes.
Liana
:confused: :( :mad: :mad: