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Old 05-11-2012, 07:59 PM #3
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Is it this one, Annie?

Ok, folks STOP wearing the eye-patch!! I went to a neuro-opthalmologist and his tech fixed a pair of glasses for me with SCOTCH TAPE -- YES, SCOTCH TAPE!!! Here's what you do. Figure out WHICH eye is dominant. My right eye is dominant. So, he put the FUZZY-looking (NOT the clear kind) of Scotch tape over the lens of my left eye (non-dominant). IF you do NOT yet NEED glasses, you could get a pair of those el-cheapo kind at a dollar store and just KNOCK out the lens on the side that you will need to LOOK through -- and put tape on the side you need to cover. I'm telling you, the scotch tape makes the glass JUST blurry enough that you won't be able to focus and it is amazing. When people see me, now -- I almost look "normal". They can see the shape of my eye through the "semi-transparent" tape -- and it takes a second or two for them to figure out something is different. It is not NEARLY as distracting as an eye-patch!! And it lets LIGHT into your eye!!

This post is in "MG - who's idea was this?" http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ht=scotch+tape

Seagirl, I ALSO have prisms for driving and watching TV (the stick on kind -- NOT the super heavy glass kind -- prescription fitted by the neuro-opthalmologist). BUT, my neuro-opth found that my DV was "wonky" -- not totally straight up and down -- not fully side by side -- a combo of both. So, my DV is "twisted" and prisms won't work for reading OR any "fine" vision needs. The tape over a lens works SUPER!!

Oh, to answer your question -- I was trying SOOOO hard to see when DV reared its ugly head that I was getting MIGRAINES and my eyes were bloodshot and painful. Anything that BOTHERS you can make MG worse -- so, I'm not surprised at the muscle weakness in other parts of your body.
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