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Originally Posted by mrsD
drooping eyelids? Before you have surgery, I think you need to
consider it might be Myasthenia Gravis.
I'd call the PN doctor and discuss this. The eyelids are the first signs in some patients. And your age is the common time for males.
Autoimmune issues, also connect to PN, and myasthenia both!
There are tests for this, blood work, etc. When was your last EMG? And I'd post at our Myasthenia forum:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum77.html
Are you having weakness? Choking on food? Do you see better after a "rest"?
I think you need another opinion before having this surgery. ....... |
Are you having weakness? Choking on food? Do you see better after a "rest"?
No to
all of the above. Last EMG was less than a year ago.
I've had 3 opinions -
2 at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Hopkins
(one with the Head of the dept, Chairman & Professor of Ophthalmology, one with the examining optometrist) and one with the Professor of Oculosurgery and plastic surgeon.
It seems to be a simple case of age compounding my pre-existing
'bedroom eyes' .......all my life.
When I was younger and looked more like an eligible bachelor
(had a full head of hair, thinner, muscular, musician,
some said not too bad in the looks dept), all the girls
thought my
'bedroom eyes' were 'sexy'.
So did my first wife when I was 22, in college,
& engaged to be married. (& also when I found myself single, after my divorce, 15 years later)
I've looked at the MG symptoms, and aside from the ptosis,
don't think that it fits for me, except that my emphysema would mask the 'shortness of breath' in the description.