wilimilicuri said on 2013/01/31 at 11:09 pm
............whatever that is.
initially i described my problem as double vision but my second optician told me that its not double vision i have but blurred vision.i saw a consultant at bristol eye hospital last week and i found it difficult to make him understand what i meant by blurred vision. my problem is that my eyes are not focusing when i look at anything. if i change from 100 yards away to 10 yards away to a yard away my eyes do not change. i can see everything but cannot look at it. if i try to focus i begin to feel giddy. if i am not careful i get giddy spells continuously. so.................i spend my life looking at the ground. its driving me mad!!!! crossing roads are a big problem because by the time i look left, look right and left again i become disorientated and my surroundings look as though they were created by picasso. i get the same problem looking at peoples faces when talking.
i think this problem is due to a car crash i had last november.
but..............its all a bit odd. i was knocked out for a few seconds in the crash but was well enough to drive to a police station and drive home afterwards. i noticed something odd the next day. i have worn glasses for short sight for about 48 years, but the day after the crash my eyes appeared to have improved and everything was extra bright and my eyes felt a bit ..............starey. like organ stops was how i described it to a friend and joked that i would not be claiming compensation but paying for the new improved eyesight. after the crash my short term memory was terrible but over the next 4/5 months it improved. but my eyes deteriorated.
about 6 months ago i started getting problems driving, and so had to stop. i could not judge the width of my car of where exactly parked cars and oncoming traffic were. i still have a car that is taxed and insured but have not driven since mid june.
this was my third car crash in which i have been knocked out. what upsets me is the fact that i have been told 3 times that there is nothing wrong with my eyes.............the second optician told me i have 20/20 vision and that most people would be glad to have my eyesight!!!! aaaaggghhhh!!!!
i am waiting for an appointment with a neurologist in the near future.
anyway, anybody come across this problem before?
bill
wilimilicuri said on 31/01/2013 at 11:09 pm
................im still here, things are the same apart from the fact they have changed.i can read except i cant read, i can see except i cant see.
my blurred vision problem cannot be so unique that it is the only one in the known universe....................can it?
as long as i am not walking things are blurred but bearable. but.......................i cannot spend the rest of my life sat in a chair watching mindless television can i? my neurologist is nursing her baby and my brain and soul rots. i had a test on first oct 2012 and another on 31st october 2012, as of yet no results.
wilimilicuri said on 17/05/2012 at 12:41 am
thanks julies husband. sorry its taken so long to reply/thank you for your concern. im more of a head case than an eye problem................as the song said, my name is bill and im a head case....................
i have had a visual electrophysiology test or whatever. it was quite a pleasant experience and undemanding. just stare at a screen of black and white squares that kept on alternating, i e black changed to white white to black. all i had to do was stare at a small red square in the centre of the screen.it was terra cotta rather than red , but so what........................it was the most relaxed ive felt for a long time. after a while i looked at the screen with one eye covered and then the other eye covered. aand then the squares were reduced in size, from chessboard to crossword. and that was it.......................but it was all clever stuff.
it seems that there was some right hemifield asymmetry in both eyes suggesting the possibility of a post chiasmal lesion ( left side of brain ).....................
i have also had an EEG , and am waiting for the result of it. on monday i am going for a MRI head with gadolinium. it will be a relief to finally find out what has happened to me.
i suppose in a lot of ways i should count myself as being lucky, my problem, which i thought was just blurred vision initially, can be controlled if i spend my life isolated, sat in a chair watching mindless television in the comfort of my own home.
its all a bit odd. in the last year i have no memory of people i have met or seen. i only recognise people i have known before may 2011. i go to buy a newspaper for my wife a few times a week and have no memory of the person who serves me yet i see them at the time. and even people i know i only see for a split second or know it is them by posture or gait. if i walk around the local coop everything is a blur in my minds eye and yet i must be seeing on a certain level because i do not get disorientated. its all to do with when i am standing and when i am moving and more importantly, when i am trying to focus on things, particularly people. always it is people.i just cant see their faces for mor thean a split second....................except for when i was on the bus on the first of may. going to the BRI their was an old man in a wheelchair with his carer. i was sat still and old men in wheel chairs are pretty static. i can remember him as clear as day. and coming home a girl of about 12 got on the bus , sat opposite me towards the right and started reading a kids novel or book. i can remember her face because sdhe had her nose buried in the book and it meant i had no movement to deal with.
thats the only two new faces i can remember in the past year. when i walk my wee beastie some days i see basil and flo, two dogs of my acquaintance.................i recognise them easily, but their owner, if i saw her without them, i would not know her from adam. i just cant see peoples faces ....................but on the plus side tree trunks are just so clear and bright.
the atos doctor. i told him that i could not read pages of print. i just cant read letters except at 1000 mph. and then i proceeded to read the smallest print, bible print as i think of it, with no difficulty. now what was odd, the bible print did not look at all small.in fact, there seemed to be about 2 inches between lines and it looked about twice the size of this typeface. thats magnovision for you.............................
anyway, im sorry this all seems so self centred but it needs to be explained in the hope that there is a kindred spirit suffering the same sort of problem so that we can offer each other solace.
anyway, enough of this already,
bhill
julie said on 26/04/2012 at 9:41 am
Hi, my wife is registered blind and i post on here for her, she would like you to be aware of this , as it may help inform you of what your eye problem may well be, either way, unless i have missed somthing, you need to see an opthamologist asap. but read this next part carefully
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an eye condition that affects a tiny part of the retina at the back of your eye, which is called the macula.
AMD causes problems with your central vision, but does not lead to total loss of sight and is not painful. AMD affects the vision you use when you're looking directly at something, for example when you're reading, looking at photos or watching television. AMD may make this central vision distorted or blurry and, over a period of time, it may cause a blank patch in the centre of your vision.
here is a link to the full text and i hope this helps you out !!
http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/eyeconditions/conditionsac/Pages/amd.aspx
wilimilicuri said on 23/04/2012 at 11:32 pm
................hello sophie, i hope my postings do not give the impression that i am miserable. i dont mean them to be interpretted as such. i am more confused than miserable. i probably should be posting on a head injury site rather than this one. sophie, answer me this.........................
i recognise people by their dogs. i probably walk by peoplle who know me all the time but i do not know them.i can see but i cannot see!!!!!! for months i have been saying to people "i have a bit of an eye problem but it seems okay at the moment..........." and then i get home and realise it was not alright at the moment........................i have hardly any memory of the people i have met since this problem started.
sophie, if i went to an optician in the morning he would give me an eye test, prescribe a pair of specs and tell me my problem would disappear in two weeks.........................
but it will not....................somewthing is wrong.
the problem is............the missing link. my eyes do not focus.................but nobody seems to understand the implications of this non focusing!!!!!!!! whatever i look at is at the same focal lenght as the background they are stood against!!! its not that complicated is it?
what happened to your left eye soph? im new to all this, asd i have mentionrd more than once, you get an eye problem you get a new pair of glasses.............. or so it was for about more years than i could shake a stick at.
hey soph, the funny thing is, eye problems are invisible!!!!!!!
you have to laugh or else you would cry.............................i dont bump into things i dont fall over things ..........................................so whats the problem?
bhill
sophie said on 19/04/2012 at 2:45 pm
it you do have something worng with your eyes its nothing diffeent everyone is the same and always will be its like me im blind in my left eye but no one treats me different so be happy just the way you are