I Have Had Double Vision For Over A Month.. Ideas?

[friendly_jacek]

Looks that anything serious was ruled out already.

This is a somewhat common conditions and doctors are not well schooled about it in their schools.

It has happened recently to a family member and a coworker, too. The eye doctor would say eyes were fine and would send the individual to a neurologist and neurologist would sent him/her back to eye doctor. Different doctors involved in those 2 cases. Eye doctors would finely reluctantly prescribe prism lenses and that helped.

Turned out the real reason for the problems was eye muscle fatigue and spending too much time at work with PC monitors or laptops, especially when they were too small and too close.

What is you line of work, and how much time do you spend staring at monitors?

 

[SatinSilver]

A bag of peeled and washed baby carrots a day.

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek
Looks that anything serious was ruled out already.

This is a somewhat common conditions and doctors are not well schooled about it in their schools.

It has happened recently to a family member and a coworker, too. The eye doctor would say eyes were fine and would send the individual to a neurologist and neurologist would sent him/her back to eye doctor. Different doctors involved in those 2 cases. Eye doctors would finely reluctantly prescribe prism lenses and that helped.

Turned out the real reason for the problems was eye muscle fatigue and spending too much time at work with PC monitors or laptops, especially when they were too small and too close.

What is you line of work, and how much time do you spend staring at monitors?

+1,000 = spot on!
also lighting/quality of light in those environments.

OP/OriginalPoster, do you wear glasses/contacts?

when i had my glasses made i had them in pair, same configuration/lenses. one pair gives me headaches and eyes fatigue after about 1.5 weeks.

 

[crazyoildude]

Hi I dont wear glasses

 

[Blaze]

My wife had both "floaters" and double vision...cause, too much diet coke (aspartame). Both resolved when she quit drinking it.

 

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: crazyoildude
Hi I dont wear glasses

You don't have to use glasses to get eye stain from PC monitors. Actually, the opposite, maybe you need glasses?

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Yep - change some supplement habits and change the diet around. Change lots of things.... soaps, detergents, perfumes, toothpastes, aspirins.... there's hundreds of things to try. Do it one at a time.

I recently had to discontinue something. I kept waking up in the middle of the night with flem / mucous thick enough to choke me. Started eliminating things and it took two months to figure out it was Fish Oil supplements.

A few years ago, I would get sudden dizzy spells. Took another month or two to figure out it was Nutra-Sweet I was sensitive to.

 

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: Blaze
My wife had both "floaters" and double vision...cause, too much diet coke (aspartame). Both resolved when she quit drinking it.


I didn't know about it. I goggled and some horror stories showed up, like pilots getting blurry vision while flying, etc.

 

[supton]

Interesting. I recall reading sometime back that floaters seem to be the bane of nearsighted people. Something about how the eye is shaped.

 

[PandaBear]

My dad had this when I got sick visiting Italy a few years ago.

It turns out to be the muscle that control his eyeball movement. It could also be a slow stroke according to some doctor and they rule that out by doing some nerve tests. He recovered after some vitamin shot into the muscle (not sure if it is really the vitamin or if he recover on his own).

 

[crazyoildude]

thank you for all the info