For me the Double Vision, Diplopia, was two equal images slightly out of Horizontal Alignment. If I closed one Eye it went away, since you can't have Double with only one Eye. It lasted a few weeks and has reduced to a permanent condition only when I am very tired and looking to the lower peripheral. I have Nystagmus when I look to either right or left extreme. It is a jiggling of the image. For this reason I don't look to the Extremes.

If the 'Double Vision' persists when you close or block one eye it is not Double Vision, an Alignment Problem, it is most likely Blurred Vision, a Focusing Problem.

Thank you dear friends for you input. I really appreciate it more than you know...

I woke one morning in 1999 with double vision. I was TERRIFIED that I had a brain tumor!
After an emergency trip to the Dr (and reassurance that I didn't have a tumor), I was sent to an ophthalmologist. He was kind and examined me, was concerned about my fear, and asked a few questions. The last question was "Have you experienced any numbness and tingling in your extremities?" Well, I had. I had been seeing a chiropractor for numbness and heavy legs.
My ophthalmologist paused, then said I needed and MRI. He gently told me it was likely that I had MS. SCARY!!
Long story short, the MRI was all MSsy; my Dr. sent me to a neuro; the neuro diagnosed me with MS based on 16 symptoms I presented. All of this happened within two weeks.
I know many (most of you) waited for months and years to be diagnosed, but I did not have to do that- I blundered into the right ophthalmologist's office and ended up with a diagnosis instead of years of fearful guessing. That is blessing number one.
Number two is this: My eyes are stronger now, so I can control the double vision as needed. When my vision gets harder to control I know to check myself and take it easy (and call my neuro!)

All my best wishes to you during this trying time. Good luck to you and may you find many a silver lining!

-jill

Welcome to you Onetwopunch..

Hi Jill

Nice to meet you. My story is very similar to yours. My diagnosis was very fast and I started with vision problems, tingling numbness and irregular reflexes. Off to a Neuro and MRI with 'numerous demyelinating lesions' and a very snappy Dx.

I suspect it went much further back than that, but it was the eye thing that scared me into getting it checked out.

Cheers

Lyn

Me too although I thought I had some sort of weird migraine thing happening. ER did a CT scan and told me I did not have a brain tumor but that was all they said at the time of course in less than a week I had a MRI and was diagnosed.

You are so fortunate to have had a great ophthalmologist! I had lazor surgery on my right eye due to retnal hystoplasmosis when I was seventeen, which resulted in center vision loss in that eye. After that I followed up with him every two years. When I was in my 20s I started to have failing vision in my good eye. He couldn't detect anything in his exams. But I was getting wavy lines on the grid test and gray spots that were not always in the same spot.

Finally, in my late twenties he looked at my grid test that the nurse had given me....then told me, "You know everytime you are in here you have something different on this test. You should quit worrying about nothing and be thankful.A lot of people would be happy to have your vision." That really upset me, and I just wanted to crawl under a chair. So of course my solution was to just not go back.

Well, looking back, now I know that it was the ms. I was having other sx but just ignored them....such as balance issues, numbness on and off, etc. . I feel like the eye surgeon should have took me more seriously and ask a few questions. As it turned out I was not dx until I was in my upper 40s. I could have been on medication for a lot of years and not been progressed as far as I am.

I had a family doctor who should have known to check me for ms. But he just patted me on the back and chalked my sx up to being a worrying mother. And I believed him. It wasn't until I was feeling so bad I wanted to just die that I switched to a different medical system that I had a doctor that had me being tested for ms within the week of my first appointment.

So I am glad you didn't have to go through that!

Wow Friend2U

So sorry that you had such an awful time. My optometrist (who was the first person I saw) had no idea and prescribed me with really expensive glasses....but my big sister had just had a friend Dx'd with MS and she told me to go to a doctor and get a referral to a neuro because she thought it sounded like MS.

It should be COMPULSORY for these specialists to undergo specifice training in this disease.

Lyn