Hello everyone,

I just wanted to share some more positive information with everyone as I know we all search for it daily.

I made some more progress in wrapping up my 2 1/2 year battle with this evil demon in my head. After, 3 optomistrist and a Neuro-Opthamologist, I went for my yearly exam today and found another great doctor (optomitrist) (can add him to my good doctors list too:p ). He seemed to know what he was talking about and it seems to co-incide with my recent diagnosis from my neurologist.

I've had some strange vision problems along the way that have improved greatly since the start of this, but am not at that 100% mark with my vision yet. He seemed confident in that he knew what was going on.

The cross-eyed feeling vision (eyes were not actually crossed) that I had in the first year was possibly due to the mixed signal my eyes were receiving when working with my central system. To explain better. My eyes were receiving the image correctly, but when sent to my brain, my central system was mixing up the signal. He said the cross-eyed vision was probably the first stages of double vision, but because my eyes were picking it up correctly, it was helping to sort it out in my brain.

I also noticed an increase in my symptoms when I would put my contacts in versus my glasses. He says your eyes work harder to see close-up with contacts than with glasses. I would see sort of fuzzy or like I switched my contacts around in my eyes, but yet I could see and read signs at a distance fine. Which after he told me this, I told him about seeing slighly blurred but reading signs clearly and he said that was actually common with injuries.

The good news, with time, he said it usually sorts itself. Since I have seen improvement at the 1 year mark and then again at the 2 year mark, I think I will be seeing perfectly by year 3.

Best,
Gloria

Hi Gloria

Thanks for the post, really interesting. I have problems with my eyes too and also suffered the same problems with things being worse with my contacts rather than my glasses. Never could really understand why this was happening - now i can!!

I hope that you get to that 100% mark sooner rather than later.

Krys

I find that the contacts are worse with close work but better for distance? Am I on my own with this one?
JAyne

Hi Gloria

Yep---believe that to be true---It falls in the area of "sensory integration".

If u want read the latest---on that(sensory integration)---check out---Scientific American Mind---April/May 2007---article called "Listening with your Eyes"

For most of us---it is---after balance---probs---a # 1---brain task---to get back on track---so that we can---once again---gain an overall unitary image of our surroundings.......

After the basic vision issues got back---on track(for me)---the fusing---of the five senses---to perceive the world as a whole---was the hardest.....and took the longest time...

Dr Hain's page on VN/LAB speaks to it---only briefly.

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HI Gloria,

I am glad you are on your way... Can I ask if you switch between your contacts and your glasses frequently? I only wear glasses now, because when I tried contacts, my dizziness returned.... This was after I wore them for one day... and it did not taper down for 1 week. So maybe best to have minimal change until your brain learns to deal with t.

Thanks everyone! Subs - thanks for the research tips....will review them again.

Tummy - No I don't switch frequently. For the first year and a half I wore my contacts all day like I use to prior to the injury. Then they just begain to bother me so much that about 8 months ago, I just started wearing my glasses all the time, but now that summer is coming, it would be nice to have my contacts back. The problems I have with them isn't really a dizzy feeling, but more visual problems with a feeling of eye strain and perhaps an increase in the headache coinciding with what the doctor said that my close up vision is off because my eyes are working harder and not clicking properly with the signals in my brain. I am near-sighted but when I put my contacts in, my close up vision is hazy or slightly blurred but yet I can read signs at a distance perfectly so my belief is that it is the close up vision not the far sighted vision.

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Gloria