Cloudy disk in eye???? - Eye & Vision Message Board

Lisa T · 05-25-2002, 08:22 PM

I was wondering if any of you guys could help me out??? I went to my nuero couple weeks ago and he checked my eyes. He told me that there is a disk in my eye that is cloudy, but it should be clear. He wants me to see an eye specialist (am going at the end of June). Said that could mean that there is intracranial pressure. I've been trying to check this out on the web but am coming up blank. Anyone know the name of the disk that he is talking about? Or maybe even what that could mean?

Thanks for your help and take care of yourselves!
Lisa

Moe C · 05-26-2002, 07:54 PM

Lisa:

You'll get a fair bit of info if you type "optic disk" into a search engine (I like Google).

This site talks about cerebral spinal fluid pressure affecting the optic disk:
[url="http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Jan00/NPO20079.html"]http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Jan00/NPO20079.html[/url]

Good luck,
Moe