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Old 08-06-2009, 03:09 PM
lezliej lezliej is offline
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Default Shunt related eye problems

My 16 year old daughter just had a shunt revision. She started seeing spots, which seemed to bother her only when she had chores to do, at any rate, it ended up being paplidema (spelling?) which was the result of pressure building up from a failing shunt.

Her vision before the shunt failure was 20/20.... day prior to surgery it was 20/90 in one eye and 20/100 in the other.

One month after surgery her vision is now 20/40 in one and 20/400!!! No tearing of the retina evidently so that's a good thing I guess.

Does anyone have any experience in this? Will the vision return? If so how long should we wait before we start to get ultra concerned? We're scheduled to go back to the optometrist in 4 weeks.

Any suggestions as to what I should be doing and/or who I should be consulting with would be great! Thanks....
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