hard to explain but not blurry or double vision --

I posted about being in a car how I felt awful for 2 days...(I think that was one of the causes)

I don't watch tv (rarely) my head feels all shook up...walking, talking, reading etc. even going on the computer a few mins

I've had my eyes checked and I was wearing prism lenses but they didnt' seem to be doing anything so I stopped. I don't see any difference with or without them on. Should I go back to my optomotrist? How do I describe this??

Did you see a regular optometrist or a behavioral optometrist? You can look for the latter at *edit*

I have recently started vision therapy, and it is definitely helping with being able to do close vision work like reading and computer work. I still have trouble with driving, riding in a car with eyes open, and some TV watching (if the editing is very quick and/or jumpy), but I am hopeful that these will also improve as I continue the therapy.

I believe the testing I had was called Vision Efficiency Evaluation. It is often done for kids who have trouble reading and/or get headaches. It showed that I had trouble with binocular vision (how the brain combines the images from each eye into one) at both close range (convergence) and switching between close and distance (accommodation).

Basically, although I did not perceive that I was seeing double, I was having to over-exert my eyes to prevent myself from seeing double, which has probably at least been contributing to if not causing headaches. It was very easy for the doctor to make me see double. Frankly, I cannot understand why this and visual field testing are not standard post-concussion assessments.

Hope this helps!

Eowyn

Hello! I just want to let you know that my daughter, who completed a 13-week course of vision therapy about nine months ago, just had a follow up. She hasn't had a headache since October and all of her visual symptoms have resolved (double vision, nystagmus, tracking problems, misplaced centerline). She wore prisms for several months and then suddenly didn't need them anymore. The nausea, headaches, lightheadedness she dealt with for nearly a year are gone!! Whooo-hoooo!

She worked very, very hard every day through vision therapy. She still does some of the exercises from time to time, particularly when she is feeling academic stress. I think she sees it as a preventative measure, or perhaps a lucky charm. I don't really know.

Eowyn: She also did not recognize that she was seeing double, which is incredibly difficult for the rest of us to even comprehend, but I believe it to be true.

Our neuro did send us to a neuro opthomologist (two of them actually because the first didn't know a visual field defect from his elbow) to have her visual field checked. They found deficits using the VEE test, but didn't offer any treatment. They felt the only thing to do was "wait a year and see what happens". We were fortunate to read about vision therapy and find a therapist on our own, even though we had to make weekly 500 round mile trips to see him.

Our best to anyone dealing with this particular manifestation of PCS.


PS - Reflexology and accupressure help a lot to deal with the headaches resulting from facial tension/eye strain. I learned thes techniques from Gail Denton's "Brainlash".