At last - an Amazing Doc

[Guest guest]

In event that the Ophthalmology appointment went badly (and it did), I had an

Optometrist appointment scheduled for yesterday morning. This appointment was

at a separate facility, and with a woman doctor.

Initially when she came in, she mentioned that she had read the notes from the

other doctors, but I kept my cool, and I said, " OK, but " and then I continued

with my list of concerns and symptoms.

Amazing! She listened and responded completely independent of what the other

doctors put into the computerized patient file.

She said that botox, while injected into a muscle causing the muscle it is

injected into to paralyze, she said it also gets distributed throughout the

body. It comes in contact with any place that blood can go. It is eventually

carried out of the body as waste, but while it is roaming around, she says that

it most likely did come in contact with my eye muscles.

She did an intense check of my eyes with that high powered lens and light, and

even put magnification loupe up to my eye to add more magnification.

She said, in most cases they need to dilate the eyes, but in my case, the botox

'already did that for her' it paralyzed the eye muscles just like if they had

been dilated and she could see deep into my eye.

So, now I understand why that other buddy-doctor said that dilation was not

necessary.

The sad thing is the buddy-doc knew that the botox had relaxed/paralyzed my eye

muscles, and still sat there and denied the botox having any effect on anything

other than where it was injected.

This female Optometrist then said that she sees I had an eye exam 1.5 years ago,

and that her findings yesterday were not the usual. She saw changes in both

eyes at farsighted, and only the blurry right eye at close up.

She said that based on my history, this was not the trend that my eyes were

making, and so she suggested I wait a year or so until the botox has left my

system completely, and for me to do eye exercises to increase the circulation to

my eyes, to expedite the eyes healing and getting back into order. Also she

said the exercises are just helpful in general and overall.

She said that the fact that I see things and then do not remember them just

moments later is part of the effect of the botox. It is part of the neurons in

my brain not working properly, or misfiring.

She said that because all of the tests for visual were ok, and because the

memory tests were ok (she gave me a list and told me to memorize the words and

then she came back to me later and I

remembered all of them).

But then when she showed me something and did not tell me to actively remember

it, I could not. She said that is different parts of the brain working.

I think that what she said made sense. I hope I am explaining it properly.

Now, I have multiple allergies to lots of things, and bad reactions to even

simple things and common food additives. So, she suggested that it might just be

me with the botox, and not the botox with everyone. That I may have a

sensitivity to it, or that it may be more toxic to me because of my

sensitivities.

But, she assured me that my vision would be back to what it should be when the

botox is done and the muscles have re-strengthened and re-coordinated

themselves.

What a relief, and what an awesome doctor. I commend her for going against the

chief of physical medicine (aka the botox doc), and his golf buddy (the

ophthalmologist) and for having her own radical thoughts and ideas about what is

going on.

I will go back for another vision test in a year and see what is what. But for

now, what a relief to even imagine that this blurry vision will be gone soon.

Jade