Comments on: Double vision: See a little something extra in 2007

By: Lois (admin)

Lois (admin) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:16:07 +0000

Solvi,

You may be interested in joining and asking your questions in our online Strabismus Support group here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EyesApart/

We have people from Europe and almost all parts of the world. Perhaps even from Norway, you could ask after you join if anyone is from there. These people experience the same issues you experience and they will understand and offer you their suggestions and support.

Lois

By: Sølvi

Sølvi — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:20:10 +0000

Hei!

I am a norwegian woman that have a lot of trubbel in my life with “hidden strabismus”.
I search other adults in Norway to talk with and discuss our situation with.
In this country this desease is very unknown so far, and I feel very lonely at the moment.

I am 56 years old, an artist and a teather in art ( the last year I cant do the job anymore because of my eyes) and I dont know yet if tha NAV is going to accept that I can`t work in scool.

If there are somebody out there, please answer me…

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:32:30 +0000

For more that thirty years I have been trying to get a
painful occular situation addressed and helped. Instead of
double vision, I get this hazy indestinct picture and the
only way I can clear it is to squint. I have monocular
diplopia of a different pattern in each eye. I eleminate the
diplopia by squinting and am able to read – tracking is a
major nightmare- comfortably. I’ve been checked out and
told that I suffere from big time higher order aberrations,
coma and trefoil, and that my squinting eliminates these and I
can see well. The amazing thing about this is what I have
been harping on with hundreds of doctors over the years is that
something is optically wrong with my eyes. I was finally
vindicated when I was tested with the wavefront aberrometer.
This causes me to posit that strabismus can in fact be
caused by significant uncorrected optical anomalies- third
order not the second order of those having to do with sphere
and cylinder. My cornea is supposedly fine, as is my retina,
fovea, etc. Soooo in desperation I ask is there any strabismus
expert who would be able to figure this out and help me with
the problem? Thank you. Mike J.

By: Lois (admin)

Lois (admin) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:50:58 +0000

I’m glad this helped, thanks for sharing, Claire. I hope all goes well for you also. Bless you!

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:00:59 +0000

that was lovely. I’ve been quite upset recently because although I’ve had double vision for about 3 years now, it been getting rapidly worse for the last three months. Thhat wonderful little anecdote was exactly what I needed to here. your right. we’re speacial and different and although its sometimes hard and others cant possibly understand what its like sometimes… we see the world very differently from other people and whats so bad about that? its nice that we can have this little world that is just ours. for the past month I’ve been wearing a prism (30 prism diopters eeeek) and although it gets rid of the double, I have tunnel vision instead and white light is m,ulti-coloured… but hey… no one else I know can say they see the world like this and it makes it into a little fantasy world where everything is brightly coloured and very distorted.

anyway… just thought Id thank you for that and hope evrything goes ok with your condition