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MS and eyes
By: agate Date: May 22, 2024, 4:21 pm
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MS often does very weird things to a person's vision. Some
people never have MS-related vision problems but others have
them.
In the earlier days of my MS "journey," vision problems were
frequent and frightening. Sometimes the world went completely
black (those episodes always came on right after an anesthetic
was injected). Sometimes I suddenly lost all color vision.
Sometimes the bottom half of the visual field suddenly fell
away, leaving blackness, and I might fall. Other times part of
my central vision was black.
I would wonder why my vision was skewed or blurry and look in
the mirror and find my left eye off to one side.
Or suddenly my eyes would feel as if they were spinning around
in my head. I could see nothing useful at all while that was
going on. It might last an hour or two.
Also, my vision seems to be very slow. I can't follow a hockey
game or any fast-paced movie. It's just not there for me. I had
a visual evoked potentials test some time ago, and the result
was "severely abnormal."
There are medical terms for all of these conditions. I even
looked them up. That didn't help me to do much about them.
My uncorrected vision is 20/400 in both eyes. Just now my best
corrected vision is said to be 20/60 and 20/100 but new glasses
will bring it up to 20/50 and 20/80.
That doesn't sound very good. In the past, for many years, my
best corrected vision has been about 20/40.
For about 20 years I've been told I have cataracts and should
have surgery. I've been promised better vision.
What the eye people don't seem to understand is that with
MS-related eye problems like this, a person is glad to have any
vision at all.
This year's annual expedition to the ophthalmologist and then
the optician has gone exactly like most previous expeditions in
the last 15 years. However, I've noticed that the eye doctor
who keeps saying, "You can get a new glasses rx but it won't
make any difference because the only thing that will help you is
cataract surgery" no longer bothers to spend much time going
through the testing of lenses of various strengths for me. A
test that always lasted 20 minutes to half an hour is now
completed in 5-10 minutes.
They fail to understand that, though I don't feel up to cataract
surgery, I still want to see as well as I can. I'm limited in
what I can do with my hands, arms, legs, feet, neck, and torso
but I'd like to see a few things if at all possible.
On the way home from the optician today, I was still able to
enjoy all of the different greens in the trees that are now in
leaf for the summer. A red rhododendron blooming along the way
was a show-stopper.
The world is filled with sights not to be missed.
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(WebMD) Devices that can help with low vision
By: agate Date: July 9, 2024, 1:14 am
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Help may be available with some of these aids. From WebMD,
"Devices That Can Help with Low Vision":
HTML https://bit.ly/3S0K69D
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