Double vision?
 

When you had double vision due to ms, was it like a shadow of the object behind the actual object or was it two very clear images alike?

Plus my vision just keeps getting blurrier by the months. I think I have lesion that is effecting my vision, but it doesn't hurt...just every once in a while I will get a sharp pain behind my eyes but it goes away very quickly.

Anybody gone through this or know anything about it

Thank you friends!!!:hug:

Vision is blurry for me, so I cant get enough detail to tell you if its shadowy or just a double of what I see. I just see more of things than I should, and its like someone smeared vaseline on my glasses so its hard to see past it.

An eye patch helps. :cool:

when I had double vision it was weird.

If I stood out on the street and looked at the painted lines on the road. I'd see the line in one eye going straight, like it was supposed to. In the other eye, that straight line would be going off to the right...so the white line in the street looked like a weird "Y". Made me sick to have my vision like that.

My eye doctor called my neuro, who called my regular doctor and the regular doctor set up an IV of solumedrol for me.

The eye doctor told me to put Scotch tape on the lens of one side of my glasses. (put it on the left lens...apparently that was the eye causing the problem) He said Scotch tape wouldnt damage my lenses. (it didnt) It was also easier than wearing a patch.


The double vision went away about two weeks after having the IVSM.

The double vision I experience is vertical-for instance, if I look at a sign with letters, there are two sets of letters, one above the other.
I get that pain behind the eye occasionally too...neuro said it was probably neuropathic pain. Who knows:confused:

Friend2U- exactly! I see shadow/lighter version of say alarm clock digits to the lower left corner of solid digits when I cover right eye. I've been meaning to create what I see in Photoshop so I can show neuro exactly what I see. It's only noticable for me if I cover my good eye and only while staring at alarm clock. Looking at monitor, if I cover good eye, screen just looks less sharp. However I just tried it and YES I see it but hard to cause prints much smaller then alarm clock.

If I recall correctly for me my double vision with nystagmus was like when as a kid I would cross my eyes or when I had far too much to drink. :o

What did help me was to cut out a piece of black paper and cover one lens of my eyeglasses. If one eye was covered my vision would improve but still be off from the jumping brought on by nystagmus.

It was horrible I hope you find some relief soon. :hug:

Thank you for the responses.
 

I only have one 'good' eye, which is my left. It is the one that if I cover my right (bad) I see the letters, or what ever I am looking at, a shadow right beside or blow. Or if I am looking at a straight line, i see a distorted line along side of the straight one.

So if I look at a grid...the whole thing is just a jumble of distorted lines. But this has been coming on for many years. Now on top of it all, I have what seems like clouds on all of my field of vision. They go between all shades of gray and some spots are completely grayed over and stay that way.

I have no center vision in my right eye. I had laser used on it when I was 17. It had swelling on my retna and was bleeding. So they zapped it.

I've been to an eye specialist who told me my optic nerves look to be in great shape, and that my eyes in general are in very good shape.

With that said, I have double vision off and on. It's worse some days, to the point of stumbling over things because of the blurriness, other days it's almost non-existent (I have to wear glasses for ranged vision, up close to read my monitor, books etc I don't need vision correction).

I get the double image ('ghosting') that folks have described in this thread - where you can see a shadow of the image behind and above (for me the ghosted image is off to the top right behind whatever I'm looking at). I also get the 'broken' images, where a black line is seemingly broken into pieces, pieces missing from the line. I generally have tremendous difficulties reading digitally displayed numbers/letters (like on my alarm clock, microwave).

I've had two types - a few episodes of true double vision, and many more episodes of what I call "3-D vision without the 3-D glasses!".

For the latter, it's as though everything has a ghost image a little bit offset and above the true object, image or scene.

When I was first Dx'd I had double vision and nystagmus. Street signs and writing on shop signs bounced around, everything was foggy and kinda grayed out. I walked through the supermarket and all the label information was gone.

I developed double vision when I looked to my left....and ten years later, though the bouncing and fog is gone, when I look with both eyes to my left I see two of everything (usually clear images although one image is usually a bit lower than the other). The extra image is usually pretty clear, although not totally solid.

Sorry that you are experiencing all this stuff I think we all have our own experience of this so there is no hard and fast rule about what we see.

Lyn

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... :hug:

Double vision as a gift
 

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..:) :hug:

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. :mad:

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! :hug:

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