Vision Therapy making me Ill?
 

First day of therapy, and I've been nauseous and had a bad headache since about a half hour after I got home from my appointment. Are the next 11 days going to suck this much? Is this normal? Got to get off this evil iPad and sit in the dark. Any feedback would be appreciated!

I'm surprised they didn't warn you... I'd say its completely normal but I suppose you should take the advice of someone that's actually had vision therapy over mine! The reason I understand what you are going through is because I've had vestibular therapy and the exercises start out all eye movements. I have eye issues also.

The day of my first session was the worst, the next day wasn't great and then I was back to the usual. I don't know how long it will last for you but today will probably be the worst.

Hopefully someone that's actually had vision therapy will answer you with more helpful advice ;)

Just wanted to say I know what you're going through and its most likely perfectly normal! No pain, no gain. Good luck with your treatment and I hope you are feeling better soon! On days I have therapy I schedule nothing the rest of the day and make sure there's leftovers in the house!

Take care
CC

Vision Therapy making me Ill?
 

Hi, I had vision therapy for about 4 months, and the 1st session was definitely the hardest on my brain. It took a few hours for it to settle down afterwards. I was also a bit nauseous. The therapist gave me exercises to do at home, as well. And they also bothered me. But each session got a bit better, till I could handle it fine.

Take it easy after you get home, if you can. And rest. That always brings me relief.

Best of luck to you.

Thanks for responding
 

This therapy is every day for 1 1/2 hours for 12 days straight. I'm wondering now if this is typical? I am dying to research more, but I can't. I might just have to wait to talk to them about it tOmorrow.

Wow that does sound really intense! Hopefully each day gets a little better! Let us know how it goes. Vision therapy is something I've been trying to get for months. Still have a long wait.

Take care
CC

That sounds like a lot to me. I was told at the beginning, about 15 minutes a day and increase as you feel able.

The therapy may vary on the type of vision issues they are addressing.

With my convergence insufficiency, I meet for 8 weeks once a week for 1 hour each session.

In the first weeks, I got intense migraines afterwards, and I needed to rest before tackling the rest of the day.

In the second month, my therapy seems to have plateaued, and I am not really progressing now. The headaches are still here, but they are less intense and no migraines. But I have eye twitching and blurriness afterwards, so I know they are working hard.

I was told that it was important to go up to your "threshold" for these exercises, but I know I get anxious and haven't really done so.

Best of luck!

When I had my eyes tested, it flared up my symptoms really bad and was told it would be pretty similar for vision therapy. I ended up going with another eye Dr. because I didn't want to have to drive for therapy and it was more costly than getting the tinted glasses.

The nice thing about the glasses is the eyes self correct themselves and you get relief right away. After wearing the glasses for 6 weeks, I got tested again for convergent insufficiency. I was still outside the normal boundaries but it was a huge improvement from where I was.

Best of luck with vision therapy and I hope you find relief.

What do they do to test for it? Is it a machine or do they just look at your eyes and have you move them or something? I know I have as yet undiagnosed eye issues but I'm not sure it's convergence insufficiency from what I've read on it.

CC

They use a machine where you look through the lense and they can split an image into 2 and then back to 1. Based on how long you see 2 images vs 1 they are able to tell if you have convergence insufficiency.

I know if you read online the definition of convergence, it says you see double images but that wasn't the case for me. I had difficulty reading for more than a couple minutes or spending more than 30 min on a computer. I did vestibular therapy and doing the tracking exercises would always make my symptoms horrible but since I had no problem actually seeing things in focus, didn't think vision was the cause.