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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
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Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
Posts: 675
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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?
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Hello, PCS Learner - I am of course much older than your daughter;
I am age 57, female, 19 mos. post-collision injury. I am just in the past month beginning to 'feel' more like my self again, which has been 'huge' improvement; and to feel improvement in function.
However perhaps like your daughter, zappy headaches still come and go, and *vision* remains an enduring problem/difficulty. Same thing with me: diplopia (double-vision x 19 mos. straight now) and blurry-vision (x 19 mos.), convergence difficulties (ongoing), and exotopia (eye turns outward to side, especially under stressful lighting conditions and when 'brain fatigued' & physically tired.
I cannot drive long distances nor at night.
I did see a vision therapy optometrist who worked with me with eye exercises and visual aids; it was quite long distance to go to his office, so I was only able to make one visit. I was given exercises to do at home.
My experience is that it all would likely had been very good for me, as I know others with young children who said it helped residual MTBI problems and learning difficulty on many levels. In my case, however,
it all was "so fast" and my trauma-ed brain had no recall/memory whatsoever of HOW to do the vision exercises/therapies once I was back home!
I called and they wrote them out and mailed them to me. Still could not make sense of them or carry them out. So, I am 'solo' in all of this and that's just how it is in my case.
Thus, you with your daughter to watch and remember, take notes, etc. (or even VIDEO the whole thing with the eye vision therapist doc,perhaps?) --- I have faith that with Mom as Coach, that you all will hopefully see improvement.
And, she has youth on her side and her body's amazing ability to help heal itself --- and a great Mother. Happy Mother's Day weekend to you all, PCSLearner! - Theta
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50s Babyboomer; 2008 high-impact rear-ended/totalled-MVC, closed-head injury->pcs ... "Still dealing with it."
1993, Fell on black ice; first closed-head injury; life-altering. // 2014 Now dealing with Peripheral Neuropathy, tremors, shakiness, vestibular disorder, akithesia, anhedonia, yada yada, likely thanks to rx meds // 2014: uprooted to the cold wet gray NW coast, trying to find a way back home ... where it's blue sky and warm!
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Each and every day I am better and better. I affirm and give thanks that it is so. // 2014-This was still true for me last year, I truly felt this a year ago. Unfortunately it holds no meaning for me now. Odd, it was the Theta mantra for years. Change change change.
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