My 16 year old daughter just had a shunt revision. She started seeing spots, which seemed to bother her only when she had chores to do, at any rate, it ended up being paplidema (spelling?) which was the result of pressure building up from a failing shunt.

Her vision before the shunt failure was 20/20.... day prior to surgery it was 20/90 in one eye and 20/100 in the other.

One month after surgery her vision is now 20/40 in one and 20/400!!! No tearing of the retina evidently so that's a good thing I guess.

Does anyone have any experience in this? Will the vision return? If so how long should we wait before we start to get ultra concerned? We're scheduled to go back to the optometrist in 4 weeks.

Any suggestions as to what I should be doing and/or who I should be consulting with would be great! Thanks....

Hi Lezliej and welcome to NeuroTalk. Here is a link where you'll find a lot of information regarding shunts. http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum14.html

I would post your questions there. These forums are great for making friends and sharing information. I'm so glad you've joined us.

Hello lezliej, and welcome to NeuroTalk!! You will find this to be such a nice place with many friendly, caring, and helpful people.

We're so glad you found us!

I wish your daughter all my best.

Welcome to NeuroTalk. Great to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help. We are all here to assist each other as possible.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene