Good Evening:

Like many on this forum, I have had the occasional head bump that usually resulted in some stars, decreased noise, 20 seconds of disorientation, and a headache..

Not this time!

Long story short... I am just walking and someone punched me in the head as hard as they could. I was not knocked-out and heard a ton of laughter, but the symptoms afterwords have been nothing short of hell-on-earth

It happened June 13th... (Saturday) I basically did the cursory check to make sure my jaw was not broken and figured I was okay. I did not have any bulging bones, no loose teeth, was not spitting blood, no severe pain chewing/talking, etc., so I suspected I was going to be fine.

That evening I had the worst headache of my life and it moved front, back, top, sides, temples, everywhere. I had no dreams but woke up and slept probably 16 times. I also had horrible nasea, but I never vomited.

The next day, I pretty much stayed in bed the entire day.

Then by Monday I was incredibly unbalanced as if I was drunk. Add to it confusion, trouble picking word choices, limited vocabulary, etc. BUT my memory other than that worked perfect.

My Wednesday the 17th, I kept getting "spacey"; I cannot describe it, but it is like being asleep while being awake and living in a dream. Nothing seems real. After struggling to wake-up the symptoms faded away

By the 17th I had vision problems, and had been doing a TON of reading about PCS. Basically, everything was blurry especially text

This is the symptom that is still plaguing me - ruining my life.

By about June 21st, my balance problems finally ended as did my feeling sick all the time constantly. On the 19th I had a Brain CT; it does not show any issues at least not that the doctors told me.

They nonchalantly said "your vision will clear."

ALL OTHER SYMPTOMS HAVE CLEARED (except occasional headaches in the side of my head or back/base of my head)

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The week before last, looking at a fan made me sick. I could not look in the refrigerator and tell what was Orangejuice not because I could not see it but because I could not process it. These symptoms went away around the 21st.

It felt funny to walk outside all last week. I could feel like my eyes were bouncing up and down with each step 22-26... This is finally normal.

The worst thing is I am a network administrator and often now see double. It is not a true "double" but a ghosting of text where the mental alignment is off maybe 1/16" in my brain and it makes it fuzzy or blurry.


On the 26th after getting home from work, and suffering for two(2) weeks, I sat at my computer and everything became clear.

I started silently crying because I thought I might recover and be able to continue to provide for myself, where it all seemed hopeless before that.


Then I realized it is only intermittently good

I can also for the first time in a couple weeks as of the 26th finally see my face clearly in the mirror. Before that my left eye just pointed in some random direction.

Now my history is that I have had an intermittent lazy-eye (left). Generally speaking, I get normal binocular vision with around 20/20 in my right eye and somewhat less 60/20 in my left... This has ALWAYS been the case for my adult life.

That said, somehow my brain would ALWAYS, effortlessly combine both images and I would see even better mixing a blurry image in with a sharp image... There was some synergistic effect; I don't know how it works, but it quit.

Now I just have bad lazy-eye all the time and it is bothering me much of the time.

I can drive normally and see things far away no problem at all. The last week, I had HUGE glare problems off street signs, where sometimes big 2000pt font signs would be blurry, yet I could read licence plates! (this is much improved)

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Fast forward to today... it was depressing at work.

I have two old, 19" monitors on my desk, which always were more than adequate, but the room is full of fluorescent lighting, which all of the sudden bothers my left eye. It has NEVER been a problem before.

My eyes always feel strained! Especially when working up close!

I can read a restaurant menu (including the fine print), but the angle matters as well as how far away I hold it. I cannot see the bottom part well unless I hold it way out at arms length.

If I look down, I see my nose and my eyes start to cross again. What do I do? This and glare are killing me.

Deadeye,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. Sorry to hear you were attacked. We've had others in a similar situation.

All I can suggest right now it to seek out a neuro-ophthalmologist and/or a functional or behavioral optometrist.

I can't say more because I can not read posts with bold print sporadically within the post. For my brain injured mind, it is like a light flashing as I try to read. So, as much as you struggle, there are others who have different visual struggles. Welcome (unfortunately) to the club.

My best to you.

Yeah; I somewhat know how you feel...

I am now sensitive to light and sometimes can and sometimes cannot focus my eyes.

When I can, I am capable of the same wonderful vision I always took for granted... at times, I am convinced I am completely cured only to look away and look back the struggle.