After 9 months of healing it is becoming clear that the big issue remaining for my daughter is indirect optic nerve trauma.*

She has a slight convergance problem, nystagmus, and occassional blurred vision. Otherwise her optic nerves look healthy and her vision is 20/20.

This is NOT a lot to complain about, but it seems to be contributing to her remaining symptoms (short, intense "zappy" headches several times a day, anxiety). Otherwise from what I can tell she doesn't have "bad enough" symptoms (visual field loss, etc) to qualify for therapy through NORA or NOVA.

Our optomitrist gave us a series of eye exercises to do at home. We have heard from three different eye doctors now that it is not uncommon for this type of injury to take a year or more to heal.

Any experiences anyone would like to share with respect to eye exercises or therapy?

*We may have some hormone issues as well, but the neuro said we should wait a couple more months to do extensive testing because between the head injury and her age (16) her hormones are fluctuating like crazy right now. We could end up chasing our tails with testing/treating a hormone imbalance if we don't give it a little time to calm down on its own.