RE: double vision--Re: Curious - optic neuritis

February 2, 2010

Did he at least prescribe prisms for it? I've been seeing double for

years...saw an ophtalmologist who was actually able to correct it with

prisms...The last dolt I saw two years ago brushed the whole thing off.

I went from almost legally blind to 20/40! Nothing was actually crossed,

more like 'overlapping'...I had trouble reading as well because of this.

He did 'this' and 'that' on his refractor and at the end of it all, I

was seeing 1000% better! He told me the new prescription would make me

dizzy at first, but I'd get used to them.

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> I also have double vision, especially when I am having the most

> trouble with ms-fatigue. With mine, my eyes feel like they are

> crossing. I never knew it was double vision because I didn't see

> double either. But the opthamologist asked me questions and when he

> found out my eyes were crossing he told me that was double vision. I

> told him when that happened I would shake my head to try to straighten

> out my eyes and he laughed. He said that's not going to work. rofl

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> *From:* |)onna

> *To:* MSersLife

> *Sent:* Tue, February 2, 2010 9:56:00 AM

> *Subject:* Re: Curious - optic neuritis

>

> ,

>

> I can't tell you how to tell the difference... Turns out what I always

> thought was eyestrain.. was actually optic neuritis in my case.. I guess

> I've had the double vision, only didn't realize it was double vision (I

> don't actually see two of things, which is what I always thought double

> vision would be like).. I do suffer from.. I guess it would be blurred

> vision.. but for the longest time thought that I just needed to have a

> prescription change in my glasses.. until I realized that today it would

> be my left eye, and tomorrow maybe my right eye.. and sometimes it

> happens within hours.. I rarely don't have to turn my head to one side

> or the other to read stuff on the internet, or email and such...

>

> But the pain I was having.. is what I've always thought of as

> eyestrain.. moving my eye right or left or up or down would cause what I

> would think of as the eye muscles hurting.. and it turned out to be

> optic neuritis.. (I've had that type of thing happen nearly all my

> life.. but when I was a child.. I was told to take my nose out of the

> books.. because that's what was causing the " eye strain " .. hmmm.. got to

> wonder now though)..

>

> Hope this helps

>

> HUGS

> |)onna

>

> Thallas wrote:

> > How can you tell the difference between optic neuritis and just

> plain old

> > everyday eyestrain? My eyesight is very bad, and I do a lot of small

> > handwork and computer work that tires out my poor little eyeballs...

> >

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February 2, 2010