Double Vision After a Traumatic Brain Injury
After one suffers a traumatic brain injury, many additional physical problems can occur as a result including vision problems. After traumatic brain injury, it is possible for the nerves or muscles that control eye movement to be injured. It is possible for the victim of a brain injury to experience a visual impairment such as double vision (diplopia), or the occurrence of two images at the same time. This condition can affect reading, walking, driving and other daily activities. In some cases, double vision isn’t constant and the symptoms may only occur during certain settings.
There are two types of double vision: monocular and binocular. In monocular double vision, the vision problem affects only one eye and does not go away when looking in different directions. When the affected eye is covered, the double images disappear. Binocular double vision affects both eyes.
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I have been dealing with a slow recovery from TBI and post concussion syndrom with multiple of symtoms such as dizziness, confusion, slow or stuterred speech, no recall, blurry and binocular double vision, migraines, bla bla bla. Although I have made huge improvements I sttill suffer with the pain and vision problems and it has been 14 months since the time of the car accident. The doctors are no saying lets go to corrective lenses. My question is At this point what are my chances of a non disabvling vision level or that is so limited, or can the double vision be corrected. Please give me any insite you have available. Thanks Gail I,m a 48 yr. old female.
I have been dealing with a slow recovery from TBI and post concussion syndrom with multiple of symtoms such as dizziness, confusion, slow or stuterred speech, no recall, blurry and binocular double vision, migraines, bla bla bla. Although I have made huge improvements I sttill suffer with the pain and vision problems and it has been 14 months since the time of the car accident. The doctors are no saying lets go to corrective lenses. My question is At this point what are my chances of a non disabvling vision level or that is so limited, or can the double vision be corrected. Please give me any insite you have available. Thanks Gail I,m a 48 yr. old female.
hi gail, it sounds like im in much the same situation as you. i was in a car accident and suffered a TBI nearly 10 mnths ago and now have constant double vision although it is only monocular but i cant really get away from it and know how frustraiting it can be. after 4 reconstructive ops my eye socket is now as it should be and the hope was that my vision would follow on its own. however this has not proved the case. the docs now say that tweaking the muscles (either adding some or tensioning existing muscles) on the underside of my eye may compensate for the lack of movement of the muscles on top of my eye ( top muscles control downward movement and vise versa) but it will not be pefect again. to fix it they would have to operate on damaged nerves somewhere at the back of my eye on the underside of my brain, but the docs say that they are not aware of anybody doing this type of surgery due to the risks, so it looks like its going to be a case of compensating to make it as good as possible but it wont be perfect. i was told about the corrective lenses too and apparntly they are often very succesfull giving the patient big improvements in their vision and they look just like normal specs. sorry i dont have anything much to tell u that u havent probably heard before but at the mo its all i know. best of luck. thanks. mark
hi gail, it sounds like im in much the same situation as you. i was in a car accident and suffered a TBI nearly 10 mnths ago and now have constant double vision although it is only monocular but i cant really get away from it and know how frustraiting it can be. after 4 reconstructive ops my eye socket is now as it should be and the hope was that my vision would follow on its own. however this has not proved the case. the docs now say that tweaking the muscles (either adding some or tensioning existing muscles) on the underside of my eye may compensate for the lack of movement of the muscles on top of my eye ( top muscles control downward movement and vise versa) but it will not be pefect again. to fix it they would have to operate on damaged nerves somewhere at the back of my eye on the underside of my brain, but the docs say that they are not aware of anybody doing this type of surgery due to the risks, so it looks like its going to be a case of compensating to make it as good as possible but it wont be perfect. i was told about the corrective lenses too and apparntly they are often very succesfull giving the patient big improvements in their vision and they look just like normal specs. sorry i dont have anything much to tell u that u havent probably heard before but at the mo its all i know. best of luck. thanks. mark